Contributed by grey on from the hopefully it's a light at the end of the tunnel and not a train dept.
It looks like Sender ID is working its way to being a non-issue as mentioned by eWeek. They have disbanded the group in charge of coming up with the standard.
"Citing a lack of agreement on basic issues in the discussions of the working group, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has disbanded the MARID (MTA Authorization Records In DNS) working group. The group had been working to create a standard for mail authentication for the fight against spam, mail worms and other e-mail abuse."
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By thrashbluegrass (68.50.4.145) thrashbluegrass at antisocial daht com on
An imperfect solution, as many of us who use the internet to conduct business with organizations with whom we have legitimate business can't be assured of a single address of origin for replies to our mail; perhaps whitelisting that domain would suffice, but open the door to spoofed addresses.
Not a deep or eloquent post, yeah, but hell, I've been up for 30 hours.
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By Anonymous Coward (66.92.213.4) on
Anyways Email certs & whitelists work the vast majority (99.9%) of the time...!
By thrashbluegrass (68.50.4.145) thrashbluegrass at antisocial daht com on
For those who've modded me down, would you be willing to let me in on your reasons for doing so, or at least engage in a discussion of the issue?
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By Anonymous Coward (62.212.99.239) on
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By Anonymous Coward (69.197.92.181) on
"The group had been working to create a standard for mail authentication for the fight against spam, mail worms and other e-mail abuse."
By CFB (63.255.174.162) on
By Anonymous Coward (205.240.34.204) on
Although I wasn't expecting to get a glut of responses gushing that I'd found the most amazing new thing in the war on spam, I didn't expect to get the negative modding that I seem to have garnered.
For those who've modded me down, would you be willing to let me in on your reasons for doing so, or at least engage in a discussion of the issue?
Not everyone reading shares your attitude that whitelists are the only way to prevent spam. It might be acceptable for you, but not for many of us, i.e. we disagree. We see merit and successes in persuing other means to prevent spam.
Having said that, it does seem like an abuse of the modding system to use it as a measure of approval instead of troll prevention.
By tedu (67.124.149.12) on
By Anonymous Coward (62.140.74.37) on
thats extremely simple! :
1. dont use outlook express
2. observer email netiquette (send mail to friends, family and colleagues via bcc OR create and send to groups)
3. avoid publishing your email address on the net
4. use web services like http://www.bugmenot.com whenever possible
5. use email services such as http://www.dodgeit.com whenever possible
of course, if a task force was setup to educate the masses for the above list, that would have been a productive use of assets and time. (if one user gets educated, thats a success!)
disclaimer: i just said dont use outlook express, NOT use XXX mail client
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By tedu (66.93.171.98) on
ok, i don't. but guess what? i still get piles of spam. i could maybe see the outlook vuln -> zombie -> spam sender connection, but on the receiving end, nope.
"2. observer email netiquette (send mail to friends, family and colleagues via bcc OR create and send to groups)"
how does this help?
"3. avoid publishing your email address on the net"
this one's kinda hard if you send email to a mailing list.
"4. use web services like http://www.bugmenot.com whenever possible"
i register for every online service with a different email (primarily for filtering). and yet, 99% of the spam i receive is destined solely for tedu.
"5. use email services such as http://www.dodgeit.com whenever possible"
uhm, so anyone can read my mail? i'll pass.
By Bob Beck (68.148.128.240) beck@openbsd.org on