On Second Thought, Why Not Just Ditch Sender Authentication Altogether

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ZaneK writes "The SPF Council has requested that the IETF revoke its support for the Sender ID SMTP authentication experiment because Sender ID conflicts with SPF in ways that can cause false positives. Because of their bickering, the IETF may pull support for both proposals. This may not matter, since, so far, spammers are the biggest beneficiaries of both SPF and Sender ID." What? A standards battle over pretty much useless technology? Who could have predicted that?

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