Re: [Evolution] RFC 2476 - Message Submission

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:16 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> Something will have to happen, spam is costing too much in time and
> resources.  So something like a 'secured' internet email backbone will
> develop, although it will require someone like MS to do it, and to
> open the protocol enough for others to use it.  Although their
> security record doesn't inspire confidence.

There are currently at least three recent proposals along these lines:
Pobox.com's SPF (Sender Permitted From), Microsoft's Caller-ID and
Yahoo's Domain Certs. The first two are somewhat similar and it looks
like they may merge. None of these is "secure email" but as an anti-spam
measure they don't need to be. Even a modest amount of per-message
effort on the part of the spammer is going to cost him enough to make
massive spam uneconomic, which is the whole point.

poc