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The FreeBSD Project

Sun, 05 Sep 2004

Sender ID hits another roadblock

It’s good to see that Debian have announced that they are unable to deploy Sender ID under the current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms. The Debian announcement is based on an earlier announcement by the Apache Software Foundation. With a bit of luck, this will mean that Sender ID (and SPF) will bite the dust before the whole useless scheme achieves any critical mass.