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AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID

Posted by timothy on from the spammers-need-some-heavy-suin' dept.

securitas writes "ZDNet reports that AOL is testing Sender Permitted From (SPF), 'an antispam filter intended to accurately trace the origin of e-mail messages.' AOL is performing the widescale SPF test with its 33 million subscribers worldwide. The system works by letting recipients use the SPF record to cross-check DNS data associated with AOL's IP addresses and confirm that the message originated from AOL's servers. The system is one of three competing e-mail authentication protocols. The other IP-identifying protocols are the Designated Mailers Protocol (DMP) and Reverse Mail Exchange (RME/RMX). All systems alter the DNS database to let e-mail servers publish the IP addresses that they use to send e-mail."

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  1. Big Deal by Ridgelift · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what? Microsoft is working on a new secret email technology and they need people to test it. They are paying people for it too! Send this email message to 10 people and receive a check for $50.00 from Microsoft. My friend Tom did it and it really works!

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    1. Re:Big Deal by miakeru · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bill Gates told me in that e-mail to beware of people like you trying to say it's fake. You trickster, you. I'm still waiting for my check, but my friend's aunt, who's brother Jim has this friend of his that did it, and assures me I'll get the check.

    2. Re:Big Deal by FattMattP · · Score: 2, Funny

      I guess Bill Gates didn't read this.

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      Prevent email address forgery. Publish SPF records for y
    3. Re:Big Deal by Johnny+Mnemonic · · Score: 4, Funny


      I know a guy, higher than entry-level, who sent it to everyone in his 10,000+ employee company. Fired for being clueless. And downing the email system.

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  2. Hrm by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know anyone respectable who uses AOL so I won't ever be able to find out how this works...

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    Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.

    1. Re:Hrm by Monkelectric · · Score: 2, Funny
      Dude aol is the best way to meet chicks (especially in a small town with no real "social" places to go).

      Not kidding. Aol has gotten me laid a number of times, and thats AOK with me.

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      Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  3. problem by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 5, Funny

    This presents a problem to those of us who have unreasonably short penises.

  4. Spam solution... by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just stop sending them?

    Ok, how about all you potential spammers send $6 to my home address:

    123 Fake St.
    Springfield, Il
    12345
    United States of America

    and U will $ee many monies! No need to spam again!

    Sincerely,
    Prince Mobutu of the Nigerian Empire.

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  5. Re:So far, so good by momerath2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    SPF 45, guaranteed spam protection for up to 12 hours!

    Now waterproof too!

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    I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
  6. Re:Still don't get it.... by nemui-chan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Not that I disagree with -anything- you've said... But how could you possibly live without email for 10 days? People would think I'm dead. =)

  7. Re:Still don't get it.... by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really, now, junk mail is just not that pressing an issue to me

    Oh really, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org, it's not? I wonder why that is, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org. Let me tell you something, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org, sometimes spam starts and you don't know how. It goes like this, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org: One day you'll check your mail and there will be a single spam e-mail, not addressed to you matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org. Then a week later, it's a couple a day, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org. And it keeps growing, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org, until you get a filter like popfile or you just stop using the address matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org.

    I hope this cleared it up for you, matrophe@sdf.lonestar.org.

  8. Re:Still don't get it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    j268wrcnct@valser.es

    Hey! that's me! I had a really urgent financial offer for you if you'd help me move some money out of Nigeria!