[thelist] Someone stole my email address

[Mark Groen]

----- Original Message ----- 
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: April 21, 2005 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Someone stole my email address

> hmm, I'm at the same datacentre as you are and my mx records also
> show the same:  SPF record is missing, (dnsreport.com) which may be
> why they are able to take advantage of this.

Can I get all of that again in English please??? I have no idea what
you just said :-(
What is a SPF record and what does it do? How does the fact that it
is
missing affect anything when it comes to email? Please educate me.

This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like
it came from your domain, which can make your domain look bad (if the
recipient thinks you really sent it), and can cost you money (when
people complain to you, rather than the spammer). You may want to add
an SPF record ASAP, as 01 Oct 2004 was the target date for domains to
have SPF records in place (Hotmail, for example, started checking SPF
records on 01 Oct 2004).

http://spf.pobox.com

hth!

cheers,

       Mark