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From: "John Glube" <jbglube(_at_)sympatico(_dot_)ca>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:17 PM
Subject: RE: [spf-discuss] Disappointed, yet..not surprised
I can't speak to their present state of mind, but I would
concur in Anne's assessment that both Harry and Jim are
likely embarrassed with what has transpired.
John
John Glube
Toronto, Canada
Embarassed at the excessive claims of the patent itself, embarassed because
it seems to directly contradict claims they made, or embararassed at getting
caught? Which factor embarasses them is important to dealing with them as
human beings.
But it's pretty irrelevant to dealing with Microsoft's behavior in SPF.
SenderID has proven itself to be IP encumbered, legally tangled, and a
software nightmare due to its requirement of XML parsing by the MTA. All of
this was predicted at the outset: by attempting to get Microsoft to
"buy-into" the SPF anti-forgery efforts in the hopes of integrating it into
their email servers and larger services like hotmail.com, SPF has actually
been set back by at least six months in its approval as a new standard, and
perhaps set back even longer in implementing new DNS changes to directly
support it because now people will associate SPF with Microsoft's SenderID
system.
Moreover, Microsoft has managed to claim a lot of credit in trade magazines
for the good work done by the SPF system without acually contributing any
useful code or development to the effort.