[thelist] Someone stole my email address

Chris Johnston fuzzylizard at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 10:08:34 CDT 2005


On 4/21/05, Mark Groen <markgroen at gmail.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: April 21, 2005 7:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Someone stole my email address
> 
> 
> 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
> 

Dumb question, but should this not be the responsibility of the
hosting company and not of the web developer? Thanks for the link, I
will look into it, but it seems that I should not be the one doing
this kind of work.

-- 
chris johnston

www.fuzzylizard.com

"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals and
something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination, we
learned to talk."
Pink Floyd


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