AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology
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Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited &quot;tepid support&quot; for Microsoft&#39;s so-called Sender ID technology, which
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Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited "tepid support" for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins.
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Microsoft's antispam Sender ID technology continues to get the cold shoulder. Now AOL adds its voice to a growing chorus of businesses and organizations shunning the proprietary e-mail authentication system.
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Dubbed AOL 9.0 Security, the latest version of America Online's software will give dial-up and high-speed subscribers free McAfee antivirus software and automatic upgrades. -The Washington Post
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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 e-mail.
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America Online, the largest Internet service provider, said it would stop using Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID technology to filter unwanted e-mail being sent to its millions of members, and instead embrace an open-source friendly alternative.
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ISP rejects Microsoft antispam plan amid concerns from open-source community.
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AOL is chums again with buddy Microsoft and is now supporting a new version of Redmond&#39;s controversial Sender ID anti-spoofing technology.
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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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America Online (AOL) has cut spam on its service for the first time in five years. AOL says it has slashed the annoying email advertisements in 2004 by 75 per cent.
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Joining America Online, EarthLink and Yahoo against spamming, Microsoft Corp. today announced the filing of three new anti-Spam lawsuits under the CAN-SPAM federal law as part of its initiative in solving the Spam problem for Internet users worldwide.
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MacCentral - Two prominent open-source software groups have rejected a proposed technology standard backed by Microsoft Corp. that would close a loophole used to send unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail, citing unresolved patent and licensing issues with the standard known as Sender ID.
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America OnlineÂ has declared 2004 a "banner year" in its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, most commonly referred to as spam.
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ISP rejects Microsoft antispam plan after open-source community speaks out.
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America Online says you&#39;ve got less mail thanks to its ongoing battle against spammers. Despite the recent spike in spam, the company claims to have had a banner year in its fight against the scourge, which
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A technological weapon against unwanted &#39;&#39;spam&quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn&#39;t work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study.
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America Online Inc.&#39;s announcement Wednesday that it would abandon its attempts to support Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID e-mail authentication standard are a serious setback for the Redmond, Wash.