Spoofed From: Prevention

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.

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Better patent it quickly... by herrvinny · 2003-10-05 13:36 · Score: 1, Troll

Better patent it quickly, before a spammer sees this and sends the paperwork in. The braindead US patent office will grant it, and then how will anyone be able to disprove the patent wasn't the spammers idea?
Re:I don't like that idea. by sirket · 2003-10-05 14:26 · Score: 1, Troll

Where do you get off thinking that you have the same rights online as someone paying 3, 4, 5 or even 6 times as much as you?

I pay $250 a month for a 768 SDSL connection. The cost isn't just for the SDSL. Part of that cost is the routed connection, the SLA and the 32 IP addresses I have. Do you really think you should be able to run a mail server on your $40 a month cable modem connection? I certainly don't think so.

-sirket