Spammers Are Early Adopters of SPF Standard

nazarijo writes "In an article entitled Spammers using sender authentication too, study says, Infoworld reports that a study by CipherTrust shows that SPF and Sender ID (SID) aren't nearly as effective as we expected them to be when combatting spam. The reason? Spammers are able to publish their own records, too. 'Spammers are now better than companies at reporting the source of their e-mail,' says Paul Judge, noted spam researcher and CipherTrust CTO. Combined with low adoption rates of either SID or SPF (31 of the Fortune 1000 according to CipherTrust), this means that the common dream of SPF or SID clearing up the spam problem wont be coming true. Wong, one of the original authors of SPF and a co-author of SID, says that it was never intended to combat all spam. Weng, another researcher in the space, says that this is just one of the many pieces of the puzzle needed to combat spam. Various SID implementations exist, including a new one from Sendmail.net based on their milter API, making it easy for you to adopt SID and try this for yourself."

Comments

We can still use it as a spam prevention tool

[hchaos]

All we need to do is block emails from anyone using SPF or SID.

even spammers

[Anonymous Coward]

need sun protection

In other news

[Dirtside]

Wong, one of the original authors of SPF and a co-author of SID, says that it was never intended to combat all spam. Weng, another researcher in the space, says that this is just one of the many pieces of the puzzle needed to combat spam.

Wung, on the other hand, claims that a variation of SPF will eventually win the day, while Wing, yet another researcher, believes that any acronym that can be confused with sunscreen will inevitably fail. And someone named "Wang" would like you to know that you can increase your penis size by 20% in just 2 hours!