Yahoo Releases Anti-Spam Technique For Upcoming Standards Battle
from the everyone-come-up-with-their-own-standard! dept
One thing that you can guarantee in the technology world is that there will never be a shortage of standards battles. While AOL is supporting Sender Policy Framework (SPF) as their way of authenticating email senders, Microsoft is pushing their "caller ID" method of combating spoofed spam and Yahoo has been pushing ahead with their own DomainKeys proposal. Today, Yahoo is making some news by announcing that they're releasing the technology as a standard. A standard for whom? So far, it seems like it's just Yahoo. Are we going to reach a point where our mail servers are going to need to separately check DomainKeys, SPF, email Caller ID, some giant useless "do not spam" database, and twenty other anti-spam systems before they'll be able to forward mail? Is it really a "standard" if everyone has their own?
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Not anti-spam, but pro-reputation
So you will still receive spam if you implement the Yahoo protocol, but not spam with a spoofed "@yahoo.com" source. or @hotmail.com or @msn.comw with the Microsoft approach, etc.
Spammers will still be able to send spam, they will just find it more difficult to forge spam to appear to have come from a protected domain.
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A proposal is not a standard.
Gee, I guess those IETF boys better jump up and get to publishing this thing for Yahoo. I mean, they don't want Yahoo to come down there and kick their butts or something for not doing their jobs.
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Spam
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Spam standards?
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SCAMMED VICTIM/$1 Million BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $1 Million USD.
Attention,
ECOBANK/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
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Most Wanted:
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Send a copy of your response to the official email:
iyamahsylvanius_un@yahoo.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
IYAMAH SYLVANIUS.
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SCAMMED VICTIM/$1 Million BENEFICIARIES. you
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SCAMMED VICTIM/$1 Million BENEFICIARIES. you
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demande de l'état de mon compte
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