When will Paypal use SPF or equivalent email protection?
It’s nice that they found and fixed a bug. But 99.9% of the email I get purporting to be from Paypal or EBay is spam that *doesn’t* come from Paypal/EBay’s mail servers. When will they enable SPF so my mail client or mailbox service can discard it without bothering me with it? (Or if not SPF, then Microsoft’s or somebody else’s DNS-based email source verifier – I don’t really care whose.) Digital signatures are nice too, but I want to discard most of the obvious forgeries first, and it’s only about 1 step above a no-brainer to implement. June 22, 2006 0 replies • IBM 403 in 1970 It was a big lineprinter that you programmed using a papertape and a plugboard full of wires, which told it how to take the punchcards and print multiple 133-character lines. We weren’t allowed to mess with the plugboard, but anything we could do with the papertape, keypunch drums, and the nearby card sorter machine was fair game. Each printer column was a bar that had the entire character set on it (48 upperca
