On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:21:46AM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
|
| In this case the alternatives being "nipped in the bud" are proposals
| like SPF, sponsored by Yahoo Mail rivals pobox.com.
rivals? this made me laugh. in the same way the chinese restaurant
across the street is a rival to McDonalds, sure.
| On the other hand, the use of cryptography in Yahoo's protocol
| potentially allows some clever tricks that aren't possible with the
| simpler SPF system. One of these is rejection of spam that has been sent
| through a mailing list and thus doesn't reach you directly from the
| server of the perpetrator.
content-based solutions do solve the .forward problem. an ESMTP
mail-from signature argument would also solve it, but i remember we
rejected on the grounds of unsuitability for "fast widespread adoption".
-------
Sender Permitted From: http://spf.pobox.com/
Archives at http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss/current/
Latest draft at http://spf.pobox.com/draft-mengwong-spf-02.9.txt
To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your
subscription,
please go to
http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname(_at_)©#«Mo\¯HÝÜîU;±¤Ö¤Íµø?¡