America Online plans to have SPF e-mail authentication in place by the end of summer and e-mail service providers (ESPs) not in compliance will lose their whitelisting status.

SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, authenticates the identity of the sender of an e-mail. Since most spam has faked addresses, SPF could be a powerful weapon in fighting spam, spoofing [define] and phishing [define].

ESPs are scrambling to comply with the AOL edict.
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