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Re: AOL testing new anti-spam technology



On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:59:18AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> One of the worst aspects of spam is the way much of it uses 
> forged sender addresses. AOL is hoping to stir up some organized 
> resistance to the practice of address forgery through a new 
> e-mail protocol called Sender Permitted From, or SPF. 
> <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0122aoltest.html?net> 

spf.pobox.com is the main site IIRC. It's a good idea, easy to implement.
If everyone would start to use it, SPAM would be cut down.

Tim

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