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Re: [Asrg] misconception in SPF

Dotzero <dotzero@gmail.com> Mon, 10 December 2012 14:22 UTC

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On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Christian Grunfeld
<christian.grunfeld@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At my institution I have told my users to check mail headers whenever
> possible.

Not a very scalable solution for the community at large even if it
were a good use of their time.

>They are physicists ... the ones who invented the www time
> ago, so they have some skill level to do it. I always told them: do
> not believe in what you see in the From: also check the envelope and
> any hop in between ! ....but what will I say them when they´ll see
> mails "comming" from a subdomain of the real domain that the mail
> claims to be from and no checks failed?
>

Is manually checking email headers a very good use of their time? How
much does a physicist at CERN get paid? Are they trained at
identifying forged headers?

Mike

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