Comments on: Promising antispam technique gets nod

Internet Engineering Task Force approves a technique designed to put junk e-mailers out of business forever.

[batavier]

Use of A-Bomb to Kill Flies?

I already have enough trouble sending out newsletters to a list of 500 members and running into untinelligent blockers like SPAMCOP.
At least Apple Mail and Yahoo Mail allow the user to determine what is really spam and what is not.
I do not need some vitual nazi to take that choice away from me.

This seems to be a case where the cure is worse than the disease. Or technology running amok.

"Domain keys authenticates that a email came from "a domain" and was not forged."

SOMEONE PLEASE DEFINE "DOMAIN" - IN THIS CONTEXT!

[hawkeyeaz1]

Won't work

Because this 'method' conventiently forgets that much of the spam is from *legitimate* accounts that are hijacked, say by malware (typically Windows, but not always) and it uses their accounts.

Besides, you can always forge the header just like you can forge the from IP address.

A more viable (but no more effective) solution is to look at the content, not the header, and note if the same content is sent to a large number of people, then go for further processing. So, essentially, the fruitless battle presently being fought. Either that of something like BlueFrog, but that does have it's own issues.

[ua549]

Certificates are too expensive for home mail servers.

This is just a way to extract hundreds of dollars per year from home users who have their own email server. It won't work unless server certificates can be obtained and verified without paying the exorbitant prices charged by the likes of VeriSign and others.