Yahoo Pushing Ahead With Email Authentication Plan
from the someone-had-to-do-something dept
For the past few years, various parties (users, companies, governments) have been saying that we need to do something about spam. However, every time they get together, the argument gets bogged down over things like "well, how do we define spam?" or the government comes up with some sort of quick and dirty law that does nothing to help the situation. Well, now, it appears that Yahoo has had enough of the various consortiums and groups trying to deal with the spam problem and realized, "hey, we're a pretty big email player - maybe we can just force through a plan." They're working on an authentication scheme that would let senders prove they are who they say they are - which would make those who aren't authenticated more suspect. They're also pushing the solution out to others to try to make it a sort of de facto standard. On the whole, this doesn't seem like a bad idea. If you could block out all the forged email, it would get rid of an awful lot of spam. Then, any of the spam that does get through could be tracked down more easily as well.
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SMTP Auth
So I don't think this will go anywhere at all. Not to mention that Yahoo is doing this on their own with little or no input from anyone else.
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how does this help?
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Interesting Concpet
With this system yahoo won't have to filter anythign that comes from them.
If MS Exchange would adopt this, 75% of all email would be authenticated. This only leaves 25% of emails that have the possibility of being from a rogue server.
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email address with my own name
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