ISP to use Sender ID
p2pnet.net News:- A Canadian ISP has decided to deploy a version of Microsoft’s Sender ID, an application much loved by spammers, the people it was meant to stop.
“Toronto-based Internet Light and Power (ILAP) on Thursday said would it be offering Sender ID, a way of authenticating the source of an e-mail message, in its iPermitMail service starting next month,” says itbusiness.ca.
LAP president Tristan Goguen is quoted as saying, “We’re abandoning our own technology because SPF is simple to use and effective.”
“Historically, with e-mail, you could walk into anyone’s (inbox) and make yourself at home. That’s over and done with. I believe iPermitMail and Sender ID is putting a lock to the door, and is putting recipients back in control.”
Email security company MX Logic found junk emailers are trying to make their messages seem ‘real’ by adopting Sender Policy Framework (SPF), meant to help stop spam.
“In its preliminary study, MX Logic found that some spammers have embraced SPF in the hope that their unsolicited email messages will be viewed as more legitimate because the messages have an SPF email authentication record associated with them,” said MX.
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See:-
simple – Microsoft Sender ID finds Canadian adopter, itbusiness.ca, October 14, 2004
junk emailers – Spammers love Sender-ID, p2pnet, September 10, 2004
October 15th, 2004 at 5:21 pm
If MX Logix says that, it’s ironic because they are doing sender ID based technology too. which begs the question. why would MX slag it’s on efforts? unless they know something else we don’t know? hmmm… then again, if it was that bad, why dose every company not abandon it? symmantic and mcaffee is still doing it… so is some japanese companies…
Fight the Power!
October 17th, 2004 at 4:08 am
Sender ID is not meant to prevent spammers to send crap.
It is designed so you know from where the crap came from.
I.e.: the server that it came through.
You can then notify that server to stop spam coming through,
and if you receive lots of spam from a server,
you can block that server.
Sender ID cannot block spam by itself,
it must be used with traditionnal methods of finding spam (honeypot),
except now you can then block the servers that are faulty.
To blindly trust that a message is not spam
because sender ID tells you that the correct server sent it
is just stupid, dumb and basically insane troll logic.