From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3281.199.98.20.107.1077754455.squirrel@wish.cooper.edu> In-Reply-To: <5650c97bcaa9d357e77eb3396c1eb368@collyer.net> References: <5650c97bcaa9d357e77eb3396c1eb368@collyer.net> Subject: SMTP+SPF (was: [9fans] Re: new release?) From: "Joel Salomon" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:14:15 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f71a5276-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Geoff Collyer said: > I've been contributing anti-spam machinery for smtpd, and have some > other code and ideas stalled by lack of time and not-quite-complete > IPv6 support in Plan 9. So far none of the strongly-hyped anti-spam > ideas keep the spam from reaching one's machine in the first place, > and I know how to do that, it's just going to take some time to do it. > Does anyone here have an opinion (yes ;-) ) on SMTP+SPF? http://spf.pobox.com/ It *claims* to be a sufficient patch on SMTP to ensure that the sender of an email is a real person from a responsible ISP. --Joel