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Re: SPF deployment by Oct. 1 ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricardo \"Rick\" Gonzalez)
Wed Jul 28 11:12:54 2004

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:12:15 -0400
From: "Ricardo \"Rick\" Gonzalez" <rico.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20040726210517.GZ8114@arctic.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


JD,

Nice work.  Good to hear Hotmail is doing their fair share to be a
responsible member of the community by adapting SPF.  Does this mean
that other improvements, such as not defaulting to sending HTML-tagged
e-mail with a 10-column line wrap, aren't far behind? =)

---Rico

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:05:17 -0700, J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> wrote:
> 
> On 07/26/04, Gerald <gcoon@inch.com> wrote:
> 
> > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/22/HNmicrosoftid_1.html
> > 
> > Does it strike anyone else as odd that they would be encouraging the use,
> > but not have SPF setup yet for the primary domains they are known for yet?
> 
>         From that article: 'Sender ID is a proposed technology standard,
>         backed by Microsoft, for verifying an e-mail message's source. It
>         combines two previous standards: the Microsoft-developed "Caller
>         ID," and the Meng Weng Wong-developed SPF.'
> 
>         Here's Hotmail's Caller ID record:
> 
> _ep.hotmail.com text = "<ep xmlns='http://ms.net/1' testing='true'><out><m><indirect>list1._ep.hotmail.com</indirect><indirect>list2._ep.hotmail.com</indirect><indirect>list3._ep.hotmail.com</indirect></m></out></ep>"
> 
>         http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/privacy/spam_senderid.mspx
> 
> --
> J.D. Falk                            "...one of the worst signs of our danger
> <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>                       is we can't imagine the route
>                                                           from here to utopia."
>                                                     -- Kim Stanley Robinson
>

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