I'm very pleased that I can now read advogato by RSS. I'm much more involved.

But, I have my own blog at: http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/blog/

but it seems that I can't have it syndicated at the current level that I'm at.

I am curious about a statement from lkcl:

Like the dog that fetches the stick even if you pretended to throw it, SPF is better implemented by Spammers than it is by everyone else. This should tell you many things, not least of which is that spammers aren't too bright.

I agree that SPF is certainly not well deployed, and I know that I don't do SPF checking. The most annoying part about SPF is the way that it breaks .forward files, of which I seem to have a lot of, since I have a lot of accounts all over the place.

But, how exactly do spammers use SPF better than the rest of us? Are they now sticking to verifiable zones, i.e. no longer forging email from hotmail.com/aol.com/etc. or are they using wildcard SPF records in some way?