Network Associates Aquires Deersoft Inc.

Duncan Findlay writes "Network Associates Inc. has just acquired Deersoft, Inc., which is known by many as the creator of SpamAssassin Pro, the proprietary (Windows) version of the GPL/PAL licensed SpamAssassin (Mirrors: Eastern US, Europe). It seems that we may see parts of SpamAssassin under the McAfee name within 6 months. You can also read the story at Yahoo or at Reuters. Unfortunately, the SpamAssassin trademark was owned by Deersoft, so hypothetically, NAI could force us to call the Open Source project something else!"

Comments

First Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have got first post
crack smoking moderators
michael simms is odd

Re:First Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

So Michael is still squatting the domain?

I think we need a Your Rights Online -story about this.

-p[0io

[Anonymous Coward]

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IN SOVIET RUSSIA

[Anonymous Coward]

the spam assassinates YOU!

Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA

[Anonymous Coward]

ahh hell.

at least i made my self laugh...

RPN haiku

[Anonymous Coward]

I use RPN
quick, easy, less keystrokes, supurb
why don't you use it?

Deersoft sucked pretty bad anyway

[Anonymous Coward]

Their ftp server sucks.

Their spam filter sucks.

Sucky ass bunch of sucks.

crack

[Anonymous Coward]

so i was smokin crack and i was fuck-ed up.... then i realized 'WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING TROLLING ON /.'this is gh3y i thought to myself. shit i've wasted like 3 years smokin crack and nearly 2 years reading /.

moral of the story i'm a karma whore but im too stupid to log in and get my funny points... so give me my 'diein' wish pleaaaaaaaaseeeeee?

no, wtf do you mean noooo
for the love of god and alll that is holy my anus is bleeding

Weakest link

[vandel405]

So i just watched the weakest link college edition and this idiot from mich state deerborn wins. He's a pol sci major, and when asked 'What body of congress is composed of 100 members' he answered 'The House Of Representatives'.... Then at the end he bragged that his school was the best and that is why he won, and he's taking it home to them. I bet the pol sci department is proud...

IN SOVIET USA

[Anonymous Coward]

The FBI assassinates Fred Hampton

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[Anonymous Coward]

"As we reported in yesterday's ComputerWire, VeriSign has changed the authoritative name servers for .com and .net so that instead of returning error messages when a browser asks for a non-ASCII domain, they return a VeriSign web site that suggests users download a browser plug-in that encodes foreign domains into ASCII.

ICANN forwarded to the IAB one expression of concern it received, sent by Paul Hoffman of the Internet Mail Consortium, which is involved in internet mail standardization. Hoffman suggested that the new service takes a "guessing" approach to domain resolution and doesn't work particularly well.

"[VeriSign] should not be allowed, through its monopoly on the .com and .net gTLDs, to destroy the coherence of the DNS for its own short-term profit," Hoffman wrote. "ICANN should demand that VGRS immediately stop giving incorrect answers to any query in .com and .net, and should instead follow the IETF standards."

Hoffman points out that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is on the verge of recommending IDNA (Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications) as a standard. If VeriSign does not adhere to this standard rather than the current system, its registry contracts should be put up for re-bidding, Hoffman suggested.

© ComputerWire"

tell 'em about the payper noose robbIE.