AOL dumps Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID
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America Online (AOL) has ditched Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID technology in favour of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). The move follows concerns over Sender ID voiced by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) earlier this week.
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Amid news of America being the largest Spam sending country in the world with a whooping 42% of all Spam sent, AOL the world&#39;s largest Internet service provider is reporting a 75% decrease in Junk e-mail based on its internal member reports.
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America Online Inc. will support a new, modified version of the Sender ID e-mail authentication specification that is being submitted to the IETF for consideration Monday.
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AOL joins Yahoo!, Google, and Hotmail in offering free email. But isn't it too 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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Health inspectors find fault with client code Privacy watchdogs have slapped a health warning on the latest version of AOL's client software, AOL 9.0.â¦
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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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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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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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America Online has decided not to fully support Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force 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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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, the world's largest Internet service provider, believes spammers are starting to give up _ at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers.
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Security researchers have found a nasty vulnerability in AOL's ICQ Pro 2003b software. AOL is recommendng that users update their software.
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The fight against spam is getting more serious as the net&#39;s big players impose conditions on bulk mail senders. From October, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast want those that send lots of messages
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SOFTWARE KING Microsoft&#39;s anti-open source obsession seems to have killed chances of its anti-Spam Sender ID getting accepted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard.
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America Online Inc. said Monday 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. -The Washington Post