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Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users
wayne writes "In a show of just how much Microsoft wants to put an end to email forgery, Hotmail, MSN and Microsoft.com will start enforcing Sender ID checks by Oct 1. In late May, MicroSoft announced that they would be adopting the Open Source SPF anti-forgery system (with a slight modification to make it Sender ID) and they have been working together with the IETF MARID working group to help create an RFC to define the Sender ID standard. Already tens of thousands of domain owners, such as AOL, Earthlink, and Gmail, have published SPF records, and thousands of systems are already checking SPF records. Publishing SPF records is easy, as is checking SPF records."
No one hates microsoft. What are you talking about? ;-)
Don't delude yourself - there's nothing 'open source' about SenderID - it's going to be an IETF standard - it has nothing to do with source code of any kind.
Funny how the open source community feels the need to grab on to anything that seems good. To bad that this whole idea is the result of several corporations trying to solve the spam problem (Microsoft, Yahoo, and others.) The end result will be a compromise between what these companies want and will be an internet standard.
The open source community is just sitting on the sidelines - waiting for the standard - so that they can copy it just like they do with everything else.
Um. . .isn't that the point of open source?
That depends on the philosophy and license. The BSD license philosophy is "good will prevail over impossible odds even if proprietary companies take everything, copyright it, and use it to hamstring the world!". The GNU GPL philosophy and license is "this is the real world. Proprietary companies will have no conscience about hamstringing everyone. Whatever change you make you must release it as GPL."
Some people say that BSD license is faithful and bulletproof. I feel it's naive. Some people say GNU GPL is snobby. I feel it's realistic.
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Summary: options to do things that won't work for a large percentage of users.
This is the fuck you attitude of "network and systems administration" it doesn't work for many situations. But it works great for smug SPF and SPEWS supporters to solve every legit objection to these systems.
The truth is, they just don't work well for the poor shmose at the end of a WiFi or unusual ISP situation but they will be crammed down everyone's throat because it makes life easier for some self important email admins.