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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 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. problem by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. 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.