Slashdot picked up a securityfocus link from Neil
Krawetz - a survey of the current spam/anti-spam
situation.

Part 1: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1763
Part 2: http://securityfocus.com/infocus/1766

Sorry if this has made the rounds earlier, but since
this list seems to have a good number of interested
parties, I figured I'd pass it along.

I think the most interesting point is that, while a
good background of the problem and proposed solutions
is given, it seems there really is no good answer
currently. The author does make mention of Sender
Permitted From (http://spf.pobox.com/), which was
recently mentioned to me by a co-worker and is the
solution I've been looking into most lately. It's in
the reverse-lookup (e.g. from rather than to MX)
family of solutions and seems like it would solve some
(but not close to all) spam issues. 

Any opinions from the list on where this field/problem
is going? Will it continue (as in the rest of the
field of security) to be an arms race? Will the bad
guys continue to spend pennies to harass us while the
good guys dump buckets of cash on incomplete
solutions? 

Sorry, nothing practical here, just late night
blabbering. Anyhoo, I'll finally be in OR for a
Thursday so I should see you guys next week.

Jason

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