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Home 28 Aug 2005 Maybe the IETF won't publish SPF and Sender-ID as experimental RFCs after all Email Yesterday, the IESG, the group that approves RFCs for publication received an appeal from Julian Mehnle to not to publish the Sender-ID spec as an experimental RFC due to technical defects. IESG members' responses were sympathetic to his concerns, so I'd say that a Sender-ID RFC has hit a roadblock. See more ...   posted at: 14:54 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/notspfrfc.html 25 Aug 2005 How not to protect children from pornography Email Sending pornography to children is really bad, right? Then making it illegal to e-mail porn to children is a great idea, right? Nope. An article in USA Today describes the perverse effects of new laws in Michigan and Utah. Both laws make it illegal to send ads to minors for things that minors aren't allowed to buy, with serious legal penalties if you do. Both have established opt-out lists on which parents can list addresses used by their children, and mailers can pay to have their lists scrubbed against the opt-out lists. Both states use a new scrubbing service run by Unspam, LLC, run by Matthew Prince who also runs the interesting Project Honeypot. The scrubbing service's website is coy about the cost of scrubbing, but the Utah regulations prescribe a fee of 1/2 cent per address and Michigan allows up to 3 cents per address. Even 1/2 cent is a significant tax on senders, and 3 cents/address is probably more than the entire cost of sending a large email campaign. Both state laws say you have to scrub and pay the ``email tax'' every 30 days to keep your lists clear of opted out addresses. See more ...   posted at: 00:00 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/utahmich.html

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