On Saturday, 2 בJuly 2005 22:20, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > I think the problem is not technical here - I can think of a few > methods to implement sender verification with minimal adjustment to > existing protocols and with introducing entirely new ones. The > problem here is that until the significant part of the email-sending > crowd does not use that method, whatever it be, you can not reliably > filter your email based on this method.
> Now, there are two obvious ways out of this vicious circle: ... > 2. Adoption of the protocol by some company like Microsoft or IBM > that can make anything an industry standard. Microsoft has announced that starting this November (11/2005) Hotmail will implement Sender ID(*) notifications to clients - when an email is received w/o Sender ID verification the user will be displayed with a warning bar. I'm assuming this is kind of adoption you were thinking of ? Now its not clear whether hotmail will mark email that declare themself to come from a Sender ID supporting domain but fail the verification, or also from any domain that does not support Sender ID, and how is the original SPF (SPF 0.9 ?) plays into it. At any rate, its probably a test before implementing this behavior into Outlook and regardless is probably a step in the wrong direction, mainly as MS are known to do only things that promote their proprietary protocols and not others. IBM is probably not much different. So unless you want your SPAM solution in the form of a proprietary protocol controlled by a company and then bought by MS, I don't think going this way is a good idea. (*) Sender ID was the "next generation" SPF which was rejected by IETF for various reasons, probably the most important was problematic and unclear licensing terms. -- Oded ::.. Charm is a way of getting the answer "Yes" -- without having asked any clear question. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
