I really do understand your point :) But look at the amount of spam -- something needs to be done. It looks like some serious players are backing this particular idea. So what about going back the discussion that was on the list for a while about a "filter" at is triggered just before the "data" section so that a lookup like SPF or one of the others (if SPF doesn't make it).
And as much as I am not a fan of MS or AOL, between the two of them they control way more than 0.001% of the mail traffic on the internet. If you add all the hotmail users and aol users, I would argue that you have more than 30% of the internet mail users just in those two groups. Plus even if just those two support SPF, that would cut down on about 50% of the SPAM, because it is those two addresses that spammers forge and use a lot of the time. Maybe it is not a perfect solution, but heck if I/we could cut out 30% of the SPAM -- that would be an awesome start :) S -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:56 PM To: XMail mailing list Subject: [xmail] Re: SPF On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Shawn Anderson wrote: > Now you are getting into that chicken or egg argument :-/ I agree, I > would love to see Xmail have more spam fighting capabilities in it. > The only way we are going to see more usage of it on the internet is > if we actually put it in place :) So, should I drop in code for every sub-standard that pops up here and there used at most by 0.001% of the internet? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature -- File: smime.p7s - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
