OT: Blacklisting workaround?

OT: Blacklisting workaround?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan - Driftwood" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [meu] OT: Blacklisting workaround?


> Sorry, but that is not true. Yahoo and AOL dropped any support for SPF
> maybe a couple of months ago. It was a doomed technology that was never
> really anticipated to work by anyone; except Microsoft.

Microsoft was one of the companies working on the proposed SPF standard, but
one day the whole thing fell apart when AOL discovered that Microsoft was
secretly back-stabbing everyone by quietly filing a patent for the very
technology they were participating in making a public standard. AOL pulled
out immediately and within 48 hours all other companies also dropped support
for SPF, leaving Microsoft on their own. No sane company would work with
Microsoft to come up with public, open standard, while they file a patent
that would force you into paying royalties when the standard get
finalized... which now likely means never.

It was all over the news about 3-4 weeks ago, I think.

Remik