[wellylug] Spam problem highlighted by Ian

[Enkidu]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:39:17 +1300, you wrote:

>Here are some related articles:
>
>http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32964.html
>http://www.freep.com/money/tech/buzz26_20040226.htm
>
>It appears to be another pre-emptive move by Microsoft to gain the upper
>hand in the SMTP market, and therefore milk us all for additional revenue
>further down the track.
>Let's hope that open source prevails through Sendmail Inc.
>
Well, only if they are allowed to. Authenticated email has to be the
way to go. I suspect that future authenticating email system will
*have* to support both the Microsoft and "other" authentication
systems. But only if the "other" get their finger out and develop a
viable alternative authenticating mail system.

Cheers,

Cliff