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Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed
penciling_in writes "CircleID has a great two-part interview with Meng Wong, lead developer of the anti-spam authentication scheme Sender Policy Framework (SPF). He has responded to various questions (which also touches on issues previously raised by Slashdot folks), including the merger with Microsoft's Caller ID, incompatibility of SPF with email forwarding services, and what he thinks about Yahoo's DomainKeys, as well as where he believes the fight against spam is headed. (He has also confirmed that the name SPF and references to sunblock are intentional!) In response to the first question in the interview on how SPF got started, Meng says: 'In 2002 Paul Vixie, the brains behind BIND, wrote a short paper titled 'Repudiating Mail-From'. That inspired two other proposals, 'Reverse MX' by Hadmut Danisch and 'Designated Mailer Protocol' by Gordon Fecyk. In late 2003 I combined the best of both proposals and called the result SPF.' Vixie replies to this reference in comments following the first article."
yeah cool wheeey :)
I use SPF 30 suntan lotion as masturbation lube.
How long until he is charged for crimes using the anti-patriotic act, and seen as a general threat to free enterprise? This might sound quite negative, but over the last few years the legislation and general tendency of court decisions, as well as in parts of the population anything that restricts the ability to screw the people over, is seen as such.
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Your job has been outsourced to a GNOME!
Did you actually read the post you just replied to?
boy you totally botched that joke. Better mod troll for bad implementation.
I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider twitter and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Knoppix or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.
If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than twitter. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.
To get an idea of what I'm talking about, check this post out. I mean, this is an article about email disclaimers, right? The parent of the post is complaining about the ads in the linked page and so on, and twitter actually goes off on a rant to blame it on Microsoft and recommend Lynx. WTF?
Here's another. In this post twitter not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "GNU". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +4) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.
More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own. Or these two. Or this one.
Still not convinced? This is what twitter considers "humour" while going about his daily "M$" routine.
More? Bad spelling in astounding conspiracy theories, more offtopic FUD and uninformed "I'm right, look at me" rants, promptly proven wrong. Worse even, twitter wants to be RMS, apparently (that first one is a winner). I mean,