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  • From: "Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Intellectual Rights Kills Anti-Spam Measure
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:17:40 -0400

Tom Boucher wrote:
> There was that, and if I recall it also required you to sign a license
> that went completely against open source stuff so Apache, and others
> wouldn't support it. So basically it ended up being Microsoft and the
> spammers wanting it.

Some of the FOSS groups didn't like it, and some did. The Apache Group
objected to the Microsoft IP provisions while Sendmail, Inc. already has
a freely-available sendmail milter implemenation of Sender-ID available.

Basically, Sender-ID is SPF, Sender Policy Framework, combined with
Microsoft's Caller-ID technology. I'm not sure what Caller-ID adds to
the mix, but SPF is a way to publish which IP addresses are authorized
to send email for a particular DNS domain. The only really good use of
SPF is to prevent Joe-Job attacks. It doesn't do anything very useful
for run-of-the-mill spam.

--[Lance]

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