> SPF+SRS works Not necessarily. SPF breaks a fair bit of existing stuff (forwarding) and SRS is not quite the complete workaround for that. For instance, one cannot afford to reject mail from a "reputed-than-thou" forwarding source which simply ignores the SRS.
True that it does not affect M$ at all.
Anyway, advocacy of Open Source Stuff is one thing - it will rub off well on the student community alone but what happens once they take up jobs in Indian IT companies?
Point to be noted is, Indian IT companies thrive on developing stuff on M$ware, with M$ware for M$ware. With the Open Source _business_ model yet to prove itself globally, no one's gonna take this up in India - at least in the foreseeable future.
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> SPF+SRS works
Not necessarily. SPF breaks a fair bit of existing stuff (forwarding) and SRS is not quite the complete workaround for that. For instance, one cannot afford to reject mail from a "reputed-than-thou" forwarding source which simply ignores the SRS.
True that it does not affect M$ at all. Anyway, advocacy of Open Source Stuff is one thing - it will rub off well on the student community alone but what happens once they take up jobs in Indian IT companies? Point to be noted is, Indian IT companies thrive on developing stuff on M$ware, with M$ware for M$ware. With the Open Source _business_ model yet to prove itself globally, no one's gonna take this up in India - at least in the foreseeable future.
Sure, and equating IIIT to MIT was a bit on the far side ;).