[Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)

[Steve Atkins]

On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:51 PM, David Wall wrote:

> Rather than devise such a new scheme, think about why SenderID, SPF,  
> DomainKeys and plain old S/MIME have not taken off.  These are all  
> open standards, free to implement and thus should be attractive.
>
> Yet they are not implemented.

I suspect that the majority of email sent has three of those four  
implemented. If not quite a majority it's _definitely_ a large fraction.

(Yes, I'm cheating. Nobody other than the very, very gullible  
implements SenderID as such, but a valid SPF record is also a valid  
SenderID record).

> Proving who the sender is would be huge -- it would allow for  
> prosecution for illegal spamming; it would alert a user whose  
> computer is infected and used as a bot, and it will allow for  
> blacklisting (reputation loss).
>
> So, before you create a new parallel mail system that costs money  
> and has cross payment systems, etc., why not get these standards  
> implement fully?
>
> Methinks it's not technology alone that's the problem.


Cheers,
   Steve