On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:08:45 -0700, Waitman C Gobble II wrote:
Anyone catch the CNN report yesterday about the "Do Not Email List"?
They were leading up to SPF but never made it. Unfortunately
they missed
the boat on that one.
Hopefully it was better that the "report" on Broadband Reports
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/46127
| Authenticate Us From Evil
| Authentication next step in spam war
|
| The FTC recently noted that a Do Not Spam Registry won't work
| until an e-mail authentication standard is agreed upon. Vint
| Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol apparently agrees,
| noting that working toward an authentication standard is the
| best angle from which to approach the war on spammers. The
| authentication systems being developed by AOL (SPF), Microsoft
| (Caller ID for e-mail), and Yahoo (Domain Keys) all could
| prove lucrative. There was a degree of consolidation recently
| after Microsoft agreed to integrate SPF into their own solution.
The bit about AOL developing SPF was interesting, not sure if
this is Vint Cerf or the "journalist" though.
No offense intended to Carl Hutzler, IMHO to whom so much is
owed for getting SPF to the mainstream.
Regards
Karl Prince
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