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- Hats-off to Microsoft for finally freeing Sender ID! Spammers, take cover
- Hats-off to Microsoft for finally freeing Sender ID! Spammers, take coverDon't let the kool-aid go to your head.SenderID is already being analysed by spammers to exploit to further their profiteering.If it really was that secure, would MS have "set it free" without trying to profit for themselves?I doubt sender ID...
- Tags: Spam, Internet service providers (ISPs), Sender ID, Microsoft Corp., SenderID
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- Microsoft sets Sender ID free
- Microsoft sets Sender ID freeIt's not a "product" in the normal sense of the word . . .It's not a product in a normal sense of the word. To be precise, SenderID and SPF is a short piece of text on a DNS server telling the receiver which machines are...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail, SenderID, SPF, spam, Sender ID, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-23
- Danger: Authenticating e-mail can break it
- Danger: Authenticating e-mail can break itNo one uses SenderID...they use Sender Policy Framework SPF. Claiming otherwise is an insult to the creators of this technology:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_FrameworkSenderID is MS technology that has zero uptake in the real world, but happens to be backward compatible with SPF v1. MS holds patents on SenderID...
- Tags: Spam, Sender Policy Framework, SenderID, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-04-19
- Sender ID's fading message
- Sender ID's fading messageWorthless?"About 84 percent of those authenticated messages were spam". We've calculated that closer to 90% of the SenderID, SPF authenticated messages we receive is Spam - but let's say it is 84%. So authentication alone is worthless."If we can get to a place where a...
- Tags: E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Sender ID, SPF, SenderID
- Discussion threads 2005-08-09
- Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology
- Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technologySpam filter wars?Could this be the start of a major war between companies for spam filtering?Similar to the browser wars of the 1990's.Mandating SPF, not Sender IDHotmail is mandating the use of [url=http://spf.pobox.com/]the Sender Policy Framework[/url] not SenderID.SenderID adds proprietary MS Purported Responsible Address PRA technology to...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, E-mail providers, SECURITY, OPEN SOURCE, SPF, Microsoft Corp., SenderID, spam filtering
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
- Anti-spam standard still moving in slow motion
- Anti-spam standard still moving in slow motionRANDZ should be enoughAs long as M$ will not charge anyone a fee to use their technology, why not use it? Sun keeps the Java patents close in hand, while allowing everyone to use the tech.Negative attentionMicrosoft's attitude has always been, "call me...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Sun Microsystems Inc., SenderID, e-mail, Microsoft Corp., SPF, spam, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2005-03-14
- Anti-spam standard still moving in slow motion
- It has now been almost six months since the last time we heard about what progress or lack thereof the SenderID e-mail authentication specification was making on the anti-spam standards front. It's been so long that I was beginning to wonder what's up and if there's any hope of ratifying...
- Tags: technique, Microsoft Corp., SenderID
- Blog posts 2005-03-14
- Amazon, others lobby FTC for help fighting spam
- Amazon, others lobby FTC for help fighting spamWaste of timeNothing the governments, or industry can do is going to stop the spam problem. Even most antispam products are having an increasingly harder time achieving the same results they were seeing just a few short months ago. For every...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, SenderID, SPF, Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, FTC
- Discussion threads 2004-11-15
- Microsoft reworks antispam spec to silence critics
- Microsoft reworks antispam spec to silence criticsSenderID is dead, long live SPF"Microsoft has revised its antispam specification Sender ID following the spec's near-death in the technical community. "Nothing near-death about it, the open source community has moved on.MS will now support the SPF standard for their products, kinda had...
- Tags: Domain names, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, wizard, SPF, DNS, Microsoft Corp., patent, anti-spam, SenderID
- Discussion threads 2004-10-25
- Open-standard bearers close ranks
- Open-standard bearers close ranksYes, Microsoft would love to cause problems for open source,But it ain't workin'. We are all watching. Fun to watch the idiots squirm.So, I can take what i want and return nothing?"Boiled down, they say that in the case of software, people shall be free to use...
- Tags: SenderID, open source, Internet Engineering Task Force, Linux, IEEE, Microsoft Corp., Linux kernel
- Discussion threads 2004-09-23
- On heels of IETF ruling, AOL bails on SenderID
- That didn't take long. Within days of the Internet Engineering Task Force giving the ixnay to Microsoft's proposal for its e-mail authentication standard to help combat spam, America Online has publicly withdrawn its support for the specification, known as SenderID, as well. In its report, eWeek characterizes AOL's decision as a "serious...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Internet Engineering Task Force, SenderID
- Blog posts 2004-09-16
- Patent concerns foil Microsoft anti-spam spec at IETF
- Just weeks after the open source community voiced concerns that Microsoft's SenderID e-mail authentication specification for combatting spam is saddled with unacceptable licensing terms, a technical working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (the standards-setting body for the Internet) has rejected SenderID for consideration as an IETF standard due to...
- Tags: Internet Engineering Task Force, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2004-09-14
- Sendmail searches for antispam testers
- Sendmail searches for antispam testersAs usual, UNIX is way behindWhere there's no money its hard to get motivated.SenderID is doomed license vioaltes GPLThe SenderID proposal is doomed. This is because Microsoft is either completely void of wisdom, or utterly overflowing in arrogance.Although there are those who would have others...
- Tags: Spam, OPEN SOURCE, http://spf.pobox.com/, Sendmail Inc., anti-spam, SenderID
- Discussion threads 2004-08-30
- Mr. Spammer, meet Bubba your new cell mate
- With a slew of lawsuits being levied on well known spammers by companies such as Microsoft, the fight is being taken to the next level by the Feds. The New York Times is reporting on project "Slam Spam" by the Feds. Slam Spam is designed to go after spammers for being...
- Tags: Feds, spammer, SenderID
- Blog posts 2004-08-25
- IETF puts SenderID on the fast track
- Though the motivation for developing and adopting it has been to fight spam and phishing, SenderID probably shouldn't be thought of as an anti-spam standard. Rather, it's an e-mail authentication standard that's will enable the fight against spam. If you're not up to speed on how e-mail authentication works, News.com's...
- Tags: e-mail, e-mail authentication, SenderID
- Blog posts 2004-08-23
- SenderID anti-spam scheme picks up steam
- As proof that that a decent, open anti-spam scheme needs little more than a good sugar-Daddy to get it off the ground, Microsoft hosted a SenderID summit at its Redmond, WA campus that was attended by the more than 80 members of the E-Mail Service Provider Coalition ESPC. Representing the...
- Tags: anti-spam, SenderID
- Blog posts 2004-08-12
- Ask (for SenderID), and you shall recieve? Not.
- At first, the headline on an InfoWorld news report made it looked like ZDNet blogger George Ou had a bout of clairvoyance when, just this morning, he starting pining for SenderID to penetrate every nook and cranny of the Internet's e-mail system. The headline reads "AOL, Yahoo rolling out sender authentication." Unfortunately, as it turns out, neither...
- Tags: SenderID
- Blog posts 2004-08-11
- Desperately seeking: Widespread adoption of SenderID
- After attempting for days to e-mail my entries for this blog to David Berlind so he could post them, and after losing most of those e-mails in a black hole due to aggressive but necessary spam and anti-virus filtering, I just can't wait another year for SenderID (consolidation of SPF...
- Tags: e-mail, JohnDoe@aol.com
- Blog posts 2004-08-11
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- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- More evidence of why Microsoft, AOL, Google, and Yahoo must work together on spam
- Theoretically, with all the e-mail that flows through its systems, Yahoo is in a really good position to spot and tag spam as spam. But if the screen shot below taken today is any evidence of how Yahoo is faring in the war, then it's time for another approach....
- Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., E-mail Authentication, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
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