----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Clausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Yes, but there's 56 domains reporting Caller-ID. You can't count them > > out<g>. > > All things being equal, I'd say that SPF has become the defacto standard. > Even if Microsoft manages to pull one off here (which I doubt, as I'm sure > their position on releasing it without anchors to sink open source), it's so > far behind in the game that I can't see it being anything but a bit player. > They screwed themselves by trying to be a**holes to the open source crowd, > and to all those who didn't want to have one of the key areas of Internet > architecture locked into by a certain gang in Redmond, Washington. > > Between SPF, ISPs blocking outgoing port 25 traffic to all but MTAs, > greylisting, anti-spam software like Declue and vigorous blackholing of the > few "legitimate' spammers out there, I think the marginalization of spam is > probably forseeable in the next two or three years. My feeling is that MS > trying to push Sender ID through is just an example of closing the barn door > after the cows have come home. A lot of people have fallen victim to this same misguided belief in the past, and history has proven otherwise. In this instance, we shall see... Bill To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
