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Re: Paper on Email Authentication (Authorization really) (was - Re: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?)


From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:59:15 -0700


On 06/13/05, "william(at)elan.net" <william () elan net> wrote: 

    No matter how the authors may "promote" their methods, most
    people don't perceive that there's any great separation between
    anti-spam and anti-forgery techniques.  As far as they're
    concerned, all e-mail threats are basically the same.

This attitude is exactly playing in the hands of DMA which wants to
make it seem like spam is only those UBE with forged origin data.

        I'm not describing my own attitude above, so you can stop being
        insulting.  What I've described is a common perception held by
        end-user types.  I'm not saying their perceptions are correct, 
        I'm just saying they exist and shouldn't be ignored.

        This is moving further off-topic, so I'll leave it at that.

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J.D. Falk                                              blong! you are a pickle!
<jdfalk () cybernothing org>


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