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Re: [Asrg] ??? E-Mail Service Providers Unite in Bid to Stop Spam ???

2003-04-28 07:46:15
At 12:17 PM +0100 4/28/03, Jon Kyme wrote:
I saw this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28AOL.html


Summary:
"The companies ó America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo ó are calling for
technical changes in the way e-mail is passed around cyberspace to make it
easier to determine who really sent it and what it is about."

Did I miss something? What's this about?

This, the spammer suite, the ESPC Proposal. I'd say everyone's jockeying for position before the FTC hearings (http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/04/spamforum.htm).

According to the NYT article, AOL/MS/Yahoo don't have a plan yet--they've just made it clear that they will do something together. So if you've got a solution which requires a lot of mail servers to make a sudden change--I'd say that's where you should be looking.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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