Let's all stop the spam worldwide. We can do it.

[Steven W. Orr]

One thing I've noticed about this 
group is that we have a strong interest in controlling spam (at least at 
the hobby level). This month's Linux Journal has a great article on 
extending DNS for the purpose of controlling forged headers. The basic 
idea is that the MX record is used by the sender to find out what address 
to send to. What's missing is an MS record (for Mail Sender) to validate 
the the mail that we are receiving is coming from a valid address. If we 
all had MS records in our DNS then we'd be able to verify that the 
incoming message from hotmail or yahoo really is from that domain.

Check this out. I'm adding to my DNS records this weekend. We should all 
do it. 

http://spf.pobox.com

I'd very much like to hear people's opinions on this.

You can see my personal ms setup via:

dig syslang.net txt

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