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SPF To Be Integrated With MS 'Caller ID' System

Posted by timothy on from the in-quotes dept.

An anonymous reader submits "CNET's news.com is reporting 'An ongoing effort to consolidate antispam authentication schemes took a big step forward with the merging of Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Microsoft's Caller ID for E-mail.' This is potentially good news." For more background, here are three previous mentions of Microsoft's proposed Caller ID-style system.

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  1. would be nice by mpost4 · · Score: 1, Troll

    if the use can then set up their client to auto reject email that does not pass.

  2. Boycott of Microsoft's Caller ID for E-mail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Make sure you let them know that patents on email technology are unacceptable. Merging is okay, let's just keep the SPF license, not the Microsoft one.