
mengwong at dumbo
Jan 14, 2004, 5:01 PM
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SPF News: AOL, Slashdot, and the MIT Spam Conference
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A lot has happened with the SPF anti-forgery system since last month's news update. We will try make announcements more regularly, perhaps once a week. *** AOL *** The biggest news by far is that AOL has published SPF records and there are indications that some other big email providers may do likewise. This is helping to move SPF into the mainstream. AOL's record shows that SPF is flexible enough that even major emailers can describe their outbound mailers in a very compact form. *** Slashdot *** Thanks to AOL, SPF showed up on slashdot.org again. See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/09/0435234&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=120&tid=126&tid=187 *** Over 3000 Domains Served *** Thanks in turn to Slashdot, the SPF registry more than tripled the number of known SPF adopters from just under 1000 to over 3000 domains and the number is growing every day. This adoption roll is voluntary and so there are certainly many more domains that are using SPF than this. See a chart at: http://www.infinitepenguins.net/SPF/register.php *** MIT Spam Conference on Friday *** The MIT Spam Conference is coming up this Friday. http://spamconference.org At the conference, Eric Raymond will be giving a presentation on how SPF helps greylisting and other anti-spam techniques. Meng Weng Wong and other members of the SPF community will also be at the conference. We have prepared a one-page handout explaining SPF. It is a good read for those who want to learn about SPF. See: http://spf.pobox.com/for-mit-spam-conference.gif
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