At 01:31 PM 8/29/2004 -0400, you wrote:
AccuSpam wrote:
<>Microsoft does not need to patent SPF and/or PRA in order to make it
irrelevant in future. All they have to do is make all their programs
that process e-mail, do it in way that the anti-forgery information
can only be extracted via using their patent. Then we are all stuck
licensing their patent and following their standard.
I don't see this as an issue, really. The great thing about SPF is you
get *some* benefit (stopping joe-job bounces) even with no email client
support.
I was thinking more of changes to Microsoft software which makes SPF not
function without CallerID.
For example, email that crosses an Exchange server (in either direction). You
are talking about a lot of business e-mail.
Possibly also they can muck with the envelope data between their clients and
SMTP. Have not really analyzed that yet.
I leave for 3 days now.