E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

Sat Jul 9 16:59:23 UTC 2005

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 trainier at kalsec.com wrote:

> The second issue with boycotting, is the false positives.

No, the *point* of the boycott is the "false positives".  ISPs *will* react
when their general users find themselves unable to send e-mail because the
entire netspace of the offending ISP is blocked (boycotted).

Blocking only a small subset of an offending ISP, in order to isolate the
block to only the downstream spammer, is not a boycott; it's looking the
other way.

(I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to
make a point.  A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be
taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.)

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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com> <todd at vierling.name>