Wednesday, December 17, 2003

SPAM SPAM SPAMM

So I now have 9000 spam messages in my collection folder (where I keep confirmed spams in case I have to re-train my SpamBayes software). That's 3 months worth, so right around 100 spam messages per day. (Will see how much that changes over the next few months, it's been going up by leaps and bounds lately and the Jan 1st CAN-SPAM law is just going to make it worse.)

SMTP+SPF was mentioned on slashdot this week. It wasn't a front-page story (why? dunno) so it didn't get much attention/posts. Waiting to see if one of the big ISPs (Yahoo! or AOL) picks it up, implements it and then requires the rest of the domains to also implement it if they want to send e-mail to AOL/Yahoo! accounts.

That's most likely how SPF (or one of the other reverse-MX) proposals will end up gaining any significant traction. If everyone waits for the standards groups to stop piddling around, it'll be 2005 before we start to see any of the reverse MX proposals in use. AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail, et. al. are big enough to say "we're going to use X while you finish putting the touches on Y".

Thunderbird 0.4 is out (e-mail client). Took me about 15 minutes to switch over from using Mozilla 1.4 and to get all of my e-mail account information migrated. Enigmail has a plug-in for 0.4 as well.

Labels: Spam

posted by Wuphon's at 8:46 PM