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Re: The New SPF: overall outline - CAUTION GNU RE

2004-05-27 01:40:46
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:37:32PM -0400, Chris Bartram wrote:
It seems the XML abomination is being brought to us by the same folks that
turned a simple "hi mom" email from ~500 bytes into about 5,000 bytes, and
are responsible for most of the joe-job/virus deliveries sent as intentional
bounces, since their email servers were notorious for accepting ANY garbage
recipient AND senders, then later emailing the (forged) sender a non-standard
undeliverable notice, usually complete with virus payload. :-(

Ok, let me add my (pessimistic) 2 cents worth here. As far as I am concerned, if
microsoft gets involded, spf is dead for me. Microsoft is in it for the money,
not to stop email forgery. Who is to say that at some point microsoft will not
come up with some kind of detail that allows spammers to bypass the entire 
protocol
and forge anyway, given that the spammer pays microsoft enough $$$ (see 
hotmail, where
one can, as a spammer, pay microsoft to get whitelisted in their spam checkers).

I just have no confidence in any protocol that involves microsoft, sorry. 

Well,

that's it really,

Koen

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