Spam Problems
Someone has been sending spam emails on "behalf" on Generation Debt. These messages, which look like a viral marketing campaign, have nothing to do with our website. While we appreciate people's efforts to make this legislative problem well known, we do NOT condone spamming.
I do not want to stop our readers from sending their student loan plight to your friends, family, congressperson, senator, or newspaper. However, I do wish that whomever has been spamming weblogs and making it appear as if Generation Debt is the source, please stop. There are better ways to get our story out there and we do not encourage unsolicited spam.
Comments
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that there is a technical way to stop people from forging your email address. AOL has been doing this for a while now, so you almost never see spam that pretends to be from someone@aol.com.
You need to get your DNS provider to add an SPF record to your DNS entry. It basically tells other servers, these are the only servers that send email that's really from generationdebt.org, if you get email claiming to be us from anywhere else, it's spam. Read about it at http://www.openspf.org; there's a wizard there to help create the record, just in case you are your own tech support. ;-)
Hope this helps, and thanks for providing these great resources.
-- sockmonk
Posted by: sockmonk | April 7, 2006 08:37 AM