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New Anti-spam Initiative Gaining Traction

Feb 14, 2004 11:42AM PST

On February 11, 2004, a group of volunteer developers published an Internet draft of a new anti-spam framework that they hope could be adopted shortly as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard. The Sender Policy Framework (SPF), which is the result of eight months of work by the SMTP+SPF group, a loose association of about 500 people led by Meng Weng Wong, seeks to improve the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) by preventing the spoofing of e-mail addresses and the hijacking of SMTP servers. Mr. Wong plans to attend the next IETF meeting at the end of February 2004 in Seoul, South Korea. He hopes either for the establishment of a working group to study SPF, or for direct adoption of the framework.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1526253,00.asp

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