[CS-FSLUG] How to keep from getting spammed?

[Fred Miller]

On Saturday September 25 2004 6:40 am, Norbert Bollow wrote:

[snip]

> Huh?  As far as I know the SMTP specs are not being rewritten.

Sorry, but they are. Presently, the problem is getting MickySoft to release 
what they've done as PUBLIC code. If they do not, then the Community WILL 
rewrite SMTP. IF MickySoft does what is for the good of all and does make the 
code public, then it wouldn't be long and we'd have the problem fixed.....for 
the most part.

> I believe that what you probably mean is MARID, the IETF working group
> tasked with developing the email authentication standard called
> "Sender-ID".  Actually that isn't going anywhere, and the IETF is
> planning to close that working group down because it failed to
> reach consensus.

No, I meant exactly what I wrote. SMTP is flawed. It CAN be fixed.

[snip]

Fred

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