Re: [CORE] SPF Record ... - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...
Date
Msg-id 20061120140808.GB29047@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: [CORE] SPF Record ...  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
List pgsql-www
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:56:58PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 1) Spammers can just register their own domain and set up SPF records
> > for that.
>
> An easy way to block spam ... I'd actually *like* that one ... as would most
> blacklists out there ...

You can't update your blacklist fast enough.  When you register a
domain these days, it resolves on the Net inside 10 minutes.  Better
still, if you're a registrar, if you delete the domain inside 5 days,
you _get your money back_.  So you can set up as a registrar for
about $2500.  You register domains, put in the SPF records, send your
spam, delete the domain, and your domain is gone before anyone's
blackhole list has even been touched.  There _is_ a list of
"recently-registered domains" built by Rick Wesson, but its
resolution is only as good as one day (he can't get the data faster
than that).

A

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