New blow for Sender ID as AOL joins disbelievers
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AOL is the latest and largest company to back away from Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID software, designed to cut spam by identifying the source of the email.
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nazarijo writes &quot;In an article entitled Spammers using sender authentication too, study says, Infoworld reports that a study by CipherTrust shows that SPF and Sender ID (SID) aren&#39;t nearly as effective as we expected them to be when combatting spam.
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NEW YORK AOL says it looks like some spammers are starting to throw in the cyber towel. The world&#39;s largest Internet service provider says that the number of attempted e-mails was down 500 (m) million -- or
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has wound up its working group on Sender ID, the proposed spam-cutting standard. The purpose of Sender ID technology is to help verify the source of emails by authenticating domain addresses as valid.
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Did AOL (Quote, Chart) jump the gun in its decision Wednesday to ditch Sender ID and continue with its Sender Policy Framework (SPF) deployment in the battle against spam?
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AOL has taken a step back from an earlier stance and agreed to support the Microsoft-backed anti-spam technology Sender ID. The reconsideration followed Microsoft&#39;s retooling of the technology
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Some AOL subscribers are discovering that the company's new free service is only free if you ask for it.
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Being a website publisher, I receive my share of mass emails asking to join linking networks or trade sitewide links with other sites. Generally, as a rule of thumb, I delete such mails before ever opening them, as they are a dime a dozen and a true link builder would compose a more personalized message [...]
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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.
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A vulnerability in AOL's instant messenger could allow attacks. Also: A new Bagle variant rumbles across the Net.
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America Online has declared it will not support the Sender ID antispam technology proposed by Microsoft, instead placing its online might behind SPF, or Sender Policy Framework. The announcement is the second major setback for Microsoft's efforts, following news this week that the IETF standards body would not validate Sender ID due to patent concerns. Meanwhile, Yahoo! is focusing on another standard called DomainKeys, leaving the industry without a consensus on how to block spam.
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Attackers could bombard PCs using instant messenger's "away" feature. AOL says a fix is imminent.
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"Sender ID"  technique to stymie junk e-mailers is failing to drawing underwhelming support.
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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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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BetaNews: After tackling Spam, AOL is now waging a two front offensive against spammers. America Online has taken the fight to &quot;Spim,&quot; which is crossing over the threshold of disruption.
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DECEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - America Online Inc. has declared 2004 a &quot;banner year&quot; in its fight against spam. Spam reports from AOL&#39;s members fell from a daily average of almost 11 million in November