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Stamping out spam

News According to Meng Weng Wong, CTO and founder of Pobox.com, whose group developed Sender Policy Framework (SPF), fighting spam has been like playing whack-a-mole. These include SPF, Microsoft's SenderID (which may have some legs left in it, despite...

[May 4, 2005, 13:00]

How does 'Sender Policy Framework' work?

News A new anti-spam measure currently under development, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), is attracting a lot of attention. There are also more SPF related tools available, such as a record checker to test your entry once it's live.

[March 17, 2004, 14:40]

Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication

Talkback SPF is designed to stop email forgery. While a lot of spam uses forged email addresses, and thus SPF failures are often a good indicator of spam, forged email is often undesirable, even if it is not explictly spam.

[October 10, 2005, 17:37]

AOL dumps Microsoft's Sender ID

News America Online (AOL) has ditched Microsoft's Sender ID technology in favour of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). AOL has decided to move forward with SPF-only checking on inbound email at this time. AOL has serious, technical concerns that Sender ID...

[September 17, 2004, 10:05]

Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication

Talkback SPF was merely intended as an anti-forgery solution, not a solution to phishing or spam. SPF is just a single piece of the puzzle. If this means using SPF or Sender-ID or DKIM or some other solution - then we need to progress these technologies.

[October 10, 2005, 17:27]

One giant step towards ending spam

Talkback As I understand it, SPF will stop anyone from sending mail via an ISP which does not host their domain. Those ISPs with significant small business customer-bases will probably have to provide a SPF-optout service to keep their customers (which the...

[April 13, 2004, 11:39]

Stamping out spam

Talkback I do agree with allot of what Meng is saying, and have read many of the pro's and con's of SPF, SenderID, Domain keys etc. I think the biggest problem today is agreeing on a standard that everyone can stick to, whether it is SPF, Domain Keys or a...

[May 9, 2005, 13:19]

Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication

Talkback We were probably the first large ISP to discard SPF after publishing conservative SPF records for over a year, in late february 2005. Earthlink followed us in July, dropping their SPF record - and this was picked up by the press as well.

[October 10, 2005, 16:22]

An Overview of the Sender Policy Framework

White Papers One solution is Sender Policy Framework (SPF). SPF has a good chance of becoming an IETF Standard. SPF will not totally reduce Spam but is a powerful solution in the fight against Spam. Some statistics state that nearly 75% of all e-mail traffic is...

[February 4, 2005, 2:00]

AOL filter prevents anonymous email

News The online unit of media giant Time Warner last week implemented SPF, or Sender Permitted From, an emerging authentication protocol for preventing email forgeries, or spoofing. The endorsement of SPF by the world's largest Internet service provider...

[January 22, 2004, 11:20]

Microsoft proposes joint anti-spam fight

News George Webb, group manager of Microsoft's anti-spam technology and strategy team, said last Friday that it has been working with the people behind SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, a proposed standard for verifying the domain of an email sender and...

[May 24, 2004, 11:40]

Microsoft proposes Sender ID to jam spam

News Microsoft announced last week that it has combined its Caller ID proposal with the Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Caller ID and SPF were both created to try and prevent domain spoofing. SPF, which preceded Microsoft's own efforts, took another...

[June 28, 2004, 16:20]

Open Shortest Path First

White Papers The working group was formed in 1988 to design an IGP based on the shortest path first (SPF) algorithm for use in the Internet, a large, international network connecting research institutions, government agencies, universities, and private...

[October 8, 2008, 3:27]

Microsoft revamps Sender ID

News Among other changes, Microsoft removed language in its pending patents for Sender ID that could have included claims to Sender Permitted From, or SPF, a widely used system for email authentication that was merged with Microsoft's CallerID for...

[October 26, 2004, 8:20]

Sender ID dealt killer blow

News The system combines a previous proposal called Sender Policy Framework, or SPF -- authored by Meng Wong, chief technology officer at Pobox.com -- and Microsoft's follow-on "Caller ID for Email Technology".

[September 24, 2004, 9:40]

Anti-spam standard catches on - with spammers

News The company found that nearly a sixth of the sources of the junk messages used a protocol known as Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to certify that the email addresses used in the messages were real. While SPF has been touted as a way to stop spam...

[September 9, 2004, 9:05]

Anti-spammers seek proof of senders' identity

News These include Sender Permitted From (SPF), the Designated Mailers Protocol (DMP) and Reverse Mail Exchange (RMX). We can solve spam with a technical solution, rather than by going through the Congress or by implementing micropayments," said Meng...

[October 27, 2003, 8:15]

Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech

News The technology requires Internet service providers, companies and other Internet domain holders to publish so-called SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, records to identify their mail servers. About 1 million domains currently publish SPF records...

[June 23, 2005, 9:30]

Google adds Yahoo's anti-spam standard to Gmail

News Sender ID blends Microsoft's proprietary "Caller ID for Email" with another technology, called Sender Policy Framework, or SPF. America Online has put its weight behind SPF and has begun installing the system into its email servers.

[October 19, 2004, 9:25]

International coalition hits back at spam

News AOL has been testing a DNS-based system, formerly known as Sender Permitted From and recently renamed Sender Policy Framework, or SPF. It recently proposed a merger of Caller ID with SPF. A coalition of top Internet service providers on Tuesday...

[June 23, 2004, 8:50]

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