Microsoft, AOL Part Ways on Sender ID
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AOL withdrew its support for Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID e-mail identity standard late Wednesday, likely cementing the creation of two dominant e-mail authentication protocols.
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Failure to reach consensus on Sender ID halts ambitious effort to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.
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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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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.
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While America Online, Microsoft, and the open-source community agree to disagree about E-mail-authentication standards, some companies are stepping up to bridge the divide.
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Internet service AOL said on Thursday  it had resolved a software problem that delayed the  transmission of millions of e-mails since the late morning.
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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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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO - America Online Inc. (AOL) has decided not to fully support Microsoft Corp.'s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the open- source community expressed intellectual property concerns.
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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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After dropping support for Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID antispam technology last month, AOL announced this week that it&#39;s once again supporting the technology, thanks to some changes Microsoft recently made.
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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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Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay  Microsoftâs technology for identity-management on the Internet in the form of Passport took another major beating today when eBay announced that they are discontinuing their support for it. Users of eBay would not be able to use their Passport Ids to login to eBay starting late ...
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AOL adopts Open ID, allowing people to use their AOL or AIM username and password to sign into non-AOL sites.
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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - An antispam technology proposed by Microsoft Corp. as a standard way of identifying the senders of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the