<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18483> AOL dumps sender ID @2Brute? By Nick Farrell: Thursday 16 September 2004, 07:25 POPULAR ISP AOL has knifed Microsoft's anti-spam technology Sender ID. According to internetnews.com, AOL has dumped the idea following concerns expressed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), coupled with the tepid support for Sender ID in the open source community. However, AOL says it will press ahead with in favour of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF)which was a component of Sender ID. The company said it will also publish Sender ID files so its users' e-mails are compliant with Sender ID-enabled servers and applications. A spokesman said that AOL also has serious, technical concerns that Sender ID appears isn't backwardly-compatible with the original SPF specification. The full story can be found here. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'