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Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users

Posted by michael on from the ever-so-slightly-less-spam dept.

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."

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  1. No posts =( by Bwerf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn, now I have to read the article.

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  2. I'm confused.. maybe I've had too much free beer by peculiarmethod · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a second. Microsoft is willingly employing open source market software? (looks at calendar).. hmm.. it's not early april. It's either armageddon, or old dogs can be taught new tricks!

    pm

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  3. Misinterpreted headline by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users

    So, now that Microsoft already dominates the OS and free e-mail markets, it's trying to get into the sunscreen market as well?

    I don't know which is worse, the cure or the disease.

    1. Re: Misinterpreted headline by cuzality · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...it's trying to get into the sunscreen market as well?

      Microsoft is just trying to protect its empire from the Sun.

  4. SPF version? by pio!pio! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next year MSFT will release SPF15 for those needing additional protection. SPF 30 and 45 to follow for those extremely pale nerds who never go in the sun

    1. Re:SPF version? by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Obviously this is a major initiative by Microsoft to wipe out Solaris...

      (sorry, couldn't help myself)

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