[Mimedefang] Attention Yahoo subscribers

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Kelson wrote:

> David F. Skoll wrote:
>> As most of you know, Yahoo and AOL plan to partner with Goodmail to allow
>> people to pay to get around their anti-spam filters.
>> 
>> We (Roaring Penguin) obviously won't be paying, so if any Yahoo list 
>> members
>> have trouble receiving MIMEDefang traffic, please get a Gmail account.
>
> As I understand it, Yahoo is only using GoodMail to certify transactional 
> mails -- i.e. to identify real mail from your bank vs. phishing mail, or 
> order confirmations, shipping notices, etc.   So the lack of a GoodMail seal 
> isn't likely to cause this list any problems.
>
> http://antispam.yahoo.com/faqs#a15

Dunno how many customers are aol or yahoo mail users, however, if the 
sentence "The CertifiedEmail symbol assures the message is safe and from 
an accredited sender" (quote from the GoodMail linkt in the above 
mentioned FAQ entry) may become more adicted to users, then the _absence_ 
of the symbol will cause a bad track!

Actually, I always wondered why free and open software is not able to 
implement a transparent way handling _existing_ sender accreditions, such 
as PGP, hence, pushing the relevance of non-commercially based 
authentification higher.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser