Yahoo work in progress | Using Domain Keys To Fight Spam
Slashdot report on the CNET News story Yahoo takes on spam, boosts e-mail storage | CNET News.com: "Yahoo on Monday said it has begun attaching antispam technology to all of its outgoing e-mails, hoping that other providers will follow suit" also points to Yahoo's: "Internet-Drafts / 'work in progress.'" Domain-based Email Authentication Using Public-Keys Advertised in the DNS (DomainKeys).For the system to work, both outgoing and incoming e-mail services must use the keys: EarthLink and Google endorse the Yahoo product but AOL and "MSN are pushing their own antispam and e-mail authentication technologies. AOL's SPF and Microsoft's Sender ID check an e-mail's identity through its Internet Protocol address, and can be used alongside DomainKeys.
Yahoo and Microsoft have filed with the Internet Engineering Task Force for their technologies to become standards."
posted by Jen @ 7:21 am
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