Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

[Katipo]

Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Katipo said on Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:43:58AM +0800:
 

Mark Ferlatte wrote:
   

Uh, it is open source, and copyleft:
http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/
The only reference to possible patent issues is the general "if we have a
patent on it, you get a royalty-free license" statement on the DomainKeys 
page
(http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys), which seems to indicate that even 
if
yahoo does have a patent on domainkeys, it doesn't matter, 'cause you can
implement it for free anyway.

M
     

I'm agin it.
I don't care how it's dressed, it is just another form of mechanism that 
we are going to see much more of, that has nothing to do with spam, and 
everything to do with control.
   

Did you read the spec?  This has very little to do with control.  All that
DomainKeys allow you to do is provide a mechanism so that other mail servers
can verify that you can mail from the domain that you are claiming to be From.
This includes your own domain.
 

And a short step from there is the creation of the situation where you 
are legally liable for anything that gets mailed from that domain, 
because you are the registered owner of it, no matter who has hot-wired 
into the situation. This is the scenario now, where if some clown steals 
your car and has a fatal accident, you are legally liable because you 
are the registered owner.

Hell, Domainkeys doesn't even require that the source MTA do the signing; a
properly configured MUA could sign instead, which means that it doesn't
automatically break forwarding setups or roaming users,
This is the source, and it does nothing to address it.
but it does help verify
that [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually belongs to example.com.
 

The level of communication I have on the net is not so shallow that I 
cannot differentiate between what is and is not spam.
I have never met you, but I can tell that you are not the poorly paid 
Chinese mainland advertising agent for an American pharmaceutical 
company with an ageing batch of V'ia-gr/a on it's hands.
One man's spam is another's information, and we apply spam filters 
appropriately.
I do not want or require any assistance with this individual process.
Especially not from the likes of the large 'community' concepts, the 
like of Yahoo/MSN/AOL.
If there exists a definition of anti-community, they are it, and I would 
be extremely wary of any concept advanced by them.
Regards,

David.
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