Re: So here it is one year later...
Dean Anderson <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Gordon Fecyk wrote: > > ...since the first rumblings of talking about a working group, and there's > been no press on MARID since the breakup of said working group. No press > from Microsoft, no press from the SPF crowd, no press from anyone. The working group broke up because of unresolvable technical problems. > And no instructions included on how to compile, install, or use what little > software is available out there. Except for the few commercial (and > expensive) offerings by GFi. If you aren't a developer of SPF, probably you shouldn't be using SPF. > What gives? Has the whole world lost complete interest in stopping spam? Is > spyware really the next big threat to the Internet that the US Congress is > looking at legislation for it but not bothering with spam anymore? No, the world has just realized that SPF doesn't work, and won't stop spam, nor stop forgery. In its present form, SPF does nothing except create more opportunities for email abuse, and promotes spam and email abuse. Most people are interested in things that work. Fewer are interested in making things worse. --Dean -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000