Balkanization of email security
February 27th, 2004
As if it weren’t bad enough that several major players are proposing
mutually-incompatible anti-spam (really, message-source authentication)
measures, now Sendmail has
announced it will support them all. This is terrible news: if more
MTA providers attempt to sign on in a similar way, we will
never be able to put the multiple-conflicting-implementations
genie back in the bottle. The Internet works because there are
standards; are we to return to the days of Prodigy and Compu$erve?