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Re: [Asrg] Statistical Analysis shows SPF should work Pretty Well

Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> Fri, 13 June 2003 05:12 UTC

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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:06:27 -0400

At 4:24 PM -0400 6/12/03, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
>Conclusion 2: Client IPs whose PTR do not match their sender domains are
>more likely to be spam than not.
>
>But that means a scheme like SPF/DMP/RMX should work nicely.

As would turning off your mail server.
How many false positives would such a scheme result in?
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