Microsoft Revises Anti-Spam Standard
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Monday  said it had revised its proposal to weed out "spam" e-mail to  win over skeptical Internet engineers who have been reluctant  to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company.
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Microsoft&#39;s E-mail-filter technology, Sender ID, is unpopular with open-source advocates but popular with spammers, who are using it to bypass other filters.
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For a year, Microsoft Corp. has extolled the virtues of the Can-Spam Act, which Congress passed in late 2003 to crack down on purveyors of unwanted bulk e-mail.
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SPAM could become a thing of the past in around two years&#39; time, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on a visit to Madrid. &quot;Spam is a major security problem,&quot; Mr Gates said, noting that progress had been made in the fight against unsolicited mail.
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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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For a year, Microsoft Corp. has extolled the virtues of the Can-Spam Act, which Congress passed in late 2003 to crack down on purveyors of unwanted bulk e-mail. The company, with other Internet and marketing firms, helped craft the act and has sued several spammers under its provisions.
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In addition to its recent failed attempts at making its Sender ID framework a standard, &#39;Net-wide solution to the problem of spam, Microsoft has also filed over 100 lawsuits against the spammers themselves.
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New service offers spam, virus filtering for small and mid-sized businesses.
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To curb spam, users will be charged for accessing their e-mail via Outlook.
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Citing a rise in spam abuse, Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN division has ended free access to its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service through the Outlook and Outlook Express clients.
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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Open-source spam blocker gets legal makeover with switch to Apache license. Oh, and tech upgrades.
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America Online Inc. said yesterday it is once again supporting a Microsoft Corp. plan to combat unwanted bulk e-mail by verifying senders of messages, a move that could rekindle industry adoption of a new system for attacking spam.
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Internet companies have begun to change the way e-mail works in order to weed out spam, but experts on Tuesday clashed over whether the underlying technology should be controlled by any one company.
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NEW YORK - A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail...
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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Microsoft this month is moving forward with the developer implementation of its anti-spam Sender ID framework, but open-source advocates and mail vendors doubt whether the software giant&#39;s new proposed license meets open-source requirements.