----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Landry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 15:27 Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] A Quick Note from the Ipswitch Executive Team
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "A. Clausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Yes, but there's 56 domains reporting Caller-ID. You can't count them > > > out<g>. > > > > All things being equal, I'd say that SPF has become the defacto standard. > > Even if Microsoft manages to pull one off here (which I doubt, as I'm sure > > their position on releasing it without anchors to sink open source), it's > so > > far behind in the game that I can't see it being anything but a bit > player. > > They screwed themselves by trying to be a**holes to the open source crowd, > > and to all those who didn't want to have one of the key areas of Internet > > architecture locked into by a certain gang in Redmond, Washington. > > > > Between SPF, ISPs blocking outgoing port 25 traffic to all but MTAs, > > greylisting, anti-spam software like Declue and vigorous blackholing of > the > > few "legitimate' spammers out there, I think the marginalization of spam > is > > probably forseeable in the next two or three years. My feeling is that MS > > trying to push Sender ID through is just an example of closing the barn > door > > after the cows have come home. > > A lot of people have fallen victim to this same misguided belief in the > past, and history has proven otherwise. In this instance, we shall see... We through postgrey on to our Postfix box and saw spam and viruses drop by 75%. If some of the big guys would close of port 25 to all but their MTAs I suspect you would see a similar effect. Perhaps that would mean that the hackers would step up attempts to root hack MTAs, but that should be substantially easier to deal with than 10 million people with compromised Windows boxes. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
