Hi Scott: >> But how are they hearing about the Sender-ID records in the first place? Virtually everything points to real SPF. <<
Apparently, Microsoft has been promoting SenderID to email mailing houses (see: http://www.exacttarget.com/) and to their network of Microsoft Partners, who in turn are educating their customers. I've had several inquiries by large clients in the past 2 weeks. Example, one client writes me: "I sat through a webinar last week that talked about sender ID and the new requirements of the CAN-SPAM law." To be fair, they disclose the fact that the patent issues may lead to a DIFFERENT standard down the road - but that for now, the Microsoft sites will use it and that's critical mass enough: "When do I need to Implement? Microsoft plans to start checking for Sender ID records in October of 2004, so we recommend you publish records by 10/1/04. Will the IETF approve Sender ID as a standard? There has been lots of talk of this recently. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has witheld their support for Sender ID due to a pending patent by Microsoft on the technology. The IETF will only approve license-free technologies as standards. This means that though we may eventually have a different standard from the IETF, all signs still point to Microsoft using Sender ID, so compliance with it is highly recommended." Best Regards Andy Schmidt H&M Systems Software, Inc. 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846 Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
