Tim and the Tin Titan

20.5.04

Spam Saviors?
The article
Three Proposed Ways to Stem the Email Influx take a look at the 3 leading techniques to authetify the originator of an email: SPF (which I have posted about before), Caller ID for E-Mail (stupid name, it comes from Microsoft) and DomainKeys (from Yahoo). Caller ID looks to be the same as SPF except with the DNS entry being written in XML. DomainKeys would use encryption to autheticate the server that is sending e-mail.