RSSAOL Rejects Microsoft Antispam Tech
By Nate Mook | Published September 16, 2004, 5:59 PM
America Online has declared it will not support the Sender ID antispam technology proposed by Microsoft, instead placing its online might behind SPF, or Sender Policy Framework. The announcement is the second major setback for Microsoft's efforts, following news this week that the IETF standards body would not validate Sender ID due to patent concerns. Meanwhile, Yahoo! is focusing on another standard called DomainKeys, leaving the industry without a consensus on how to block spam.
SPF and sender id have nothing to do with spam...
they allow one to check if the email is allowed from comming from that server
this will make very hard for someone to fake a email from other people, and so spam and virus will get rejected...
BUT there is nothing that forbides the spammer from buying a domain, setup the SPF and send the spam, and so, SPF isnt about spam, but building the link about who send the email and who the emails claim to be
of course in the end, if one can trust the from:, we can whitelist the good domains and blacklist the bad ones
the bad ones will always keep changing, but the true gain will be the trust in the whitelist and the end of abusing other people domain
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