Interesting article, in case anyone missed this...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6688675.stm
Full Version: New tools to stop spammers
It is a step forward and a nice idea but ... and I feel it is a rather large BUT ...
Like having a super-secure door but wedging it open while you run in and out half a dozen times
Unless everyone signs up to it AND bounces any e-mail that does not use it, it is just not going to work.
It isn't clear if this IETF can impose this and enforce it's use and frankly, if DKIM are going to charge for the service (which I'm damn sure they will!) then a lot of ISPs will just ignore it. The very nature of the Internet and e-mail makes it a legal impossibility to impose and enforce regulations on a global scale.
I feel the volume of legitimate e-mail crossing international boundaries and bouncing off the DKIM wall is not going to be sufficient to rouse customers into demanding their ISP sign up to it. They'll just get a web mail account with an ISP that does for their e-mail that must go through. At best it may become another e-mail firewall system, but I don't think it will be anything more than that.
Didn't MS try to impose a similar "standard" a little while back? Judging by the volume of Spam still circulating, these initiatives are only working for the honest user aka the victim.
As they said of the original Internet model, it is designed to route around any blockages. I see this as an artificial blockage that will most likely be given a detour.
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But in order for the technology to work, both the sender and recipient need their mail services to be signed up to DKIM.
Like having a super-secure door but wedging it open while you run in and out half a dozen times
Unless everyone signs up to it AND bounces any e-mail that does not use it, it is just not going to work. It isn't clear if this IETF can impose this and enforce it's use and frankly, if DKIM are going to charge for the service (which I'm damn sure they will!) then a lot of ISPs will just ignore it. The very nature of the Internet and e-mail makes it a legal impossibility to impose and enforce regulations on a global scale.
I feel the volume of legitimate e-mail crossing international boundaries and bouncing off the DKIM wall is not going to be sufficient to rouse customers into demanding their ISP sign up to it. They'll just get a web mail account with an ISP that does for their e-mail that must go through. At best it may become another e-mail firewall system, but I don't think it will be anything more than that.
Didn't MS try to impose a similar "standard" a little while back? Judging by the volume of Spam still circulating, these initiatives are only working for the honest user aka the victim.
As they said of the original Internet model, it is designed to route around any blockages. I see this as an artificial blockage that will most likely be given a detour.
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