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Story: Experts clash over merits of anti-spam authentication

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I would be very happy to have viruses stop forging my email address. If SPF accomplishes that, then it has gone a long way toward fulfilling it's promise.

If viruses are forced to use the legitimate identies of their hijacked machines, that makes them very much easier to trace and do something about. Suddenly all those worthless messages from brain dead antivirus programs become meaningful and useful. If I only got a message from a virus scanner on a remote machine when it really had detected a virus laden message coming from my machine, that would be quite useful instead of the meaningless waste of bandwidth it is now.

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