Spoofed From: Prevention · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 5, 2003 @01:18PM from the web-of-trust dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the next promising advance in the war on spam is here! Introducing SPF: Sender Permitted From. A draft RFC is still being written, but the idea is simple: we can prevent forged emails by having domain owners publish a list of IP addresses authorized to send mail from their domain. It's no silver bullet, but how much spam can we eliminate by preventing forged mail from spoofed domains? Maybe we really don't need anti-spam legislation after all? The SPF site is chock-full of juicy info for our reading enjoyment. Bon appetit!" Interestingly, the to-do list mentions the possibility of seeking a defensive patent on this scheme, too.

1 of 532 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:why not? by gnuguru · 2003-10-05 15:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Your DSL connection is there so you can play your games, download your p2p stuff, and use your isp's mailservers.

If you'd like to play with the big boys, and toss email, you'll need to play on the same turf. Take your tonka toy DSL connection and go play quietly in the sandpit for a while.