Re: SPF and egos

Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:53:30 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg.smtpverify
Organization SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Silverman wrote:
> Is SPAM really a technical problem?  Clearly SPAM is a problem, but it 
> isn't clear to me that SPAM is a technical problem.  The real source of 
> the problem with SPAM is that there are some people who are ethically 
> challenged who misuse it.
> 
> Now, we are all technicians and we're working on technical solutions for 
> this non-technical problem.  And maybe that's why we're not making much 
> progress.
> 

Its a multifaceted problem - technical, society, economic, etc. All 
aspects of the problem must be address but technical solutions are part 
of the equation just as much as non-technical parts are.

> Are there web pages that describe SPF and LAMP (and some of the other 
> proposals ) in more detail?  I came to the discussion late, and I missed 
> the URLs for those pages.  Thank you.
> 

All of the LMAP-related proposals are listed here:

http://asrg.kavi.com/apps/group_public/documents.php?wg_abbrev=lmap

More recent versions are available at the IETF status tracker:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi

Yakov