Re: AOL testing new anti-spam technology

[Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>]

On Sat, 24.01.2004 at 11:59:18 +1100, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> 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> 

There has been a heated discussion, but with imho valid arguments, on
the qmail user mailing list which imho highlights some conceptual
problems in SPF.

Please consider reading

http://www.space.net/~maex/Drafts/dns-mtamark/


Thank you!


Best,
--Toni++