Do you use email to send out your newsletter?
Have you published your email policy record?
Send out your message via a third party email service provider. Has the provider you use published the required records?
Don't know which record to publish?
Well for now publish an SPF record.
http://www.spf.pobox.com
Why? Even though SPF is flawed and arguably IP encumbered, while in my view PRA checking is nuts, the whole issue is not over with the collapse of MARID.
How come? Read the following articles:
Net giants adopt anti-spam system
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3706828.stm
- and -
Microsoft and Sender ID: Ready or not, here it comes
http://blogs.zdnet.com/index.php?p=549
Perhaps the worst part? The following statement by a press spokesperson for Microsoft in the blog article:
"Microsoft does not control Sender ID. The patents you reference have neither been scoped nor granted by the issuing body and we have maintained royalty-free licensing in perpetuity."
My response? Read:
For The Record, Will Microsoft Own Email?"
http://www.learnsteps4profit.com/wme.html
Do folks want MS to become the Internet post office?
No ... then sit down and write an email or send a letter to the FTC.
Then start sorting through publishing a record, if you have not done so already, even though we are working without an approved standard, or even an experimental RFC standard.
Hah, and ain't life grand?
John
John Glube
Toronto, Canada
For The Record, Will Microsoft Own Email?