At 11:27 AM -0700 6/27/03, Howard Roth wrote:
Overview of Email Sender Validation Effort to reduce SPAM:
Efforts to validate the sender of an email message will help reduce
the dissemination of unwanted email. We propose a specific
methodology to address this issue by using a simple method based on
a process that responds to a new message with specially coded
request for validation message. This specially coded message is
sent to the "reply to" address. The message initiating mail server
receives this reply and responds with an acknowledgement to the
In what way is this any functionally any different than RMX or other
similar server-is-authorized-to-send-mail protocols? Unlike those,
this requires maintaining state and uses a heavyweight protocol. It
does have the advantage of not requiring a live internet server to do
verification. But it has the disadvantage of requiring millions of
people to change how they send email (most especially users of
web-mail services).
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Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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