Sir Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web, and is thought of as being one of the 100 greatest minds of the 20th century. He gave an interview to internetnews.com recently and here’s some of what he said:
On spam and viruses:
“Another thing that makes viruses spread more rapidly is this illegal practice of forging ‘from:’ addresses in e-mails. I think SPF is something that should be more widely used to thwart e-mail address forgery.
“The technology is there to deal with this. SPF can be used right now to distinguish legitimate mail from illegal mail containing viruses before any message data is transmitted. I encourage people to use SPF because it provides the technology that works.”
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He really is an underappreciated genius. Hopefully, he found a way to make untold amounts of money off the invention of the Web!
he may seem unappreciated now, but i think he’ll hold an important place in history.