Re: Stopping Spam

From: David MacQuigg (dmq)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:28:33 -0700

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:40:10 GMT, "GEO" Me@home.here wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:08:22 -0700, David MacQuigg <dmq at gain.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I've written a shorter article on Email Authentication for the
>>Wikipedia. This is intended for non-technical readers and covers just
>>the issues related to authentication of domain names, not the larger
>>issues of stopping spam. Comments are welcome on both readability and
>>technical accuracy. There is a comments page with the article
>>intended for discussion, or we can discuss it in this newsgroup.
>>-- Dave
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Authentication
>
>
>SPF, as in 'SPF record', is not defined within the article. Only by
>reading the actual address of the link I was able to find out what it
>stood for.
>
>The links 'SPF[2] (http://spf.pobox.com), SenderID[3],...' look a bit
>confusing.

These are "wiki" links to other pages in Wikipedia, followed by
regular links to the relevant homepages. The numbers in square
brackets are added automatically, and refer to the references at the
end of the article. It's a bit confusing at first, but very
convenient once you get used to it. I could spell out the links, as
you have done above, but that would interrupt the flow of the
sentence. If you print the article (as opposed to viewing it online)
you will see the links spelled out.

Maybe I should put quotes around "SPF record" where it first occurs to
indicate its just a name. You don't need to know what it stands for
to follow the article.

Thanks for the comments. Every bit helps.

-- Dave

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