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Re: [Asrg] DNS-based Email Sender Authentication Mechanisms: aCritical Review

Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz <Jose-Marcio.Martins@mines-paristech.fr> Wed, 27 May 2009 10:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] DNS-based Email Sender Authentication Mechanisms: aCritical Review
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Chris Lewis wrote:
> 
> I experimented with it.  It works.  But doesn't add enough to be worth 
> while if you already have decent MTA-end filtering.
> 
> If you don't have decent MTA filtering, it might be worthwhile.

OK, but... Well, you said "if you don't have decent MTA filtering".

Looks like "hack", "workaround", ...

IMHO, one of the problems in spam filtering is that we're allways including and accepting 
the existence of bad solutions, bad administered mail servers, bad practices, ...

It seems to me that ASRG should, first of all, encourage best practices.

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