Group Abandons Work on Anti-Spam Standards
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has shut down the MARID working group, which was attempting to develop a Sender ID standard.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force closed its working group Wednesday after it failed to agree on an e-mail authentication standard.
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pk2000 writes &quot;Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce.&quot; &#39;Unfortunately, for now, we have made the decision to stop participating in UN/Cefact for business reasons and this serves as notification of our immediate
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A proposed technology for identifying the source of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the IETF established to study the proposal sent it back for more work, citing concerns over vague intellectual property claims made by
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Lycos Europe&#39;s controversial anti-spam advertising campaign has been discontinued after only three days due to charges that it promotes vigilantism.
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But the overall file size for spam is decreasing, according to the security vendor's latest report.
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A working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force voted not to proceed with an antispam technology standards proposal submitted by Microsoft because of concerns about intellectual property claims that the company is making.
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Spammers aren't ducking antispam laws by operating offshore, they're just ignoring it.
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NEW YORK America Online says spammers may be giving up on sending junk e-mail to its subscribers. A spokesman for Dulles-based AOL says the number of spam messages they delete is down from last year.
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Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers.
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America Online Inc. has decided not to fully support Microsoft's Sender ID spam-fighting plan citing intellectual property concerns from the Internet Engineering Task Force and the open-source community.
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Lycos UK has withdrawn its anti-spam screensaver download from its portal following criticism that the vigilante-style programme had been too successful against spammersâ websites, shutting down a range of sites.
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Spam-fighting group Spamhaus has been ordered by a U.S. court to pay damages to a company it allegedly illegally blacklisted. However, the organization has thumbed its nose at the judgment, and refuses to abide by the ruling.
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Less than a week after a standards-setting group rejected Microsoft&#39;s scheme to stymie spam, America Online added to the company&#39;s woes by dumping the software giant&#39;s proposed Sender ID.
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Anti-spam vendors hit back on Tuesday against analyst firm Gartner&#39;s claims that the level of spam is falling. &quot;I don&#39;t agree with it at all,&quot; said Mark Sommer, chief technology officer at MessageLabs.
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America Online has shunned a Microsoft proposal to help weed out unwanted &quot;spam&quot; e-mail because Internet engineers are reluctant to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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RWerp writes &quot;LWN.net reports that Debian, a Linux distribution known for its commitment to Free Software ideas, rejected Microsoft-patented SenderID technology, intended to combat spam.