My concern about SPF is that it is now a legacy system and that people need
to understand that they cannot play with it as much as they would like.
This is just the kind of "fait accompli" bullshit that we saw coming. SPF's
proponents argue about how it's "optional" and "not required" but meanwhile try
to make it EXACTLY that. Then they say, "gee, it's now in place" and "we can't
really change it _now_..."
SPF has seen extensive deployment and despite the issues that broke up MARID
is still backed by all the major ISPs and every major industry thought leader -
here including OSS as industry.
It's a braindead, ill-conceived scheme and those people who deployed it KNOWING
FULL WELL that it had these warts ought to know be forced to bear the costs of
their folly!
The only place SPF and Sender-ID are still disputed is in the academy.
Rubbish.
Frankly my opinion on that quarter is the same as that of Dentrassi cooks on
subjects other than cuisine and mixing drinks.
The point about authentication is not that it will stop spam...
But of course, that's what it was ALWAYS PRESENTED in the same breath as... the
same kind of lies and deceptions and misrepresentations that have been used to
justify major wars by equally dishonest liars. :-(((
...but that providing an authentication mechanism is a pre-condition for
deployment of any scheme that moves beyond content filtering and blacklists.
Sorry, but I simply DO NOT AGREE with that. Nor, for that matter, do I feel
that "moving beyond" content filtering and blacklists are necessarily even
DESIRABLE, on balance (in particular, if the major costs and hassles are not
justfied by whatever minor advantages and improvements there might be).
But to claim that "an authentication mechanism" is a precondition for ANY AND
ALL other technologies, including technologies not yet proposed, is clearly
ridiculous.
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