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Yahoo! Develops Anti-Spam Architecture
prostoalex writes "Yahoo!, the owner of one of the largest e-mail systems in the world, is said to be developing a cryptographic product that will be offered freely to mail servers. 'Domain Keys,' according to the Reuters article, would require the message sender to authenticate in order for message to come across a trusted e-mail network. The idea has been around for ages, however, it required someone from the big league like Yahoo! to step in." While Yahoo! isn't the first name that comes to mind when I think of trusted email, it's still a step in the right direction.
What a horrible way to create the death of email. I mean that literally. Users DO NOT respond to these assine confirm-you-identity requests. Hell they don't even respond to our requests from our Helpdesk to clean out their over-quota home directories before we do it for them. TMDA is not a solution for anyone other than those people that don't want to get email. I mean that literally. TMDA also can't handle auto-acks from unknown addresses. For example Newegg and Amazon email invoices to you after a purchase and also email you shipping info. Neither Newegg or Amazon can respond to mail sent back to the From address because it's a list bot and set to bounce. TMDA can't handle this. The user will have to be able to add that address in advance. Just imagine what it would be like calling Amazon to ask them for the address that they'll use to email you. I bet that would baffle their CSRs. The same can be said for mailing lists that the user actually subscribes to (or agrees to be subscribed to). If they expect the world to conform to their whim and ack their auto-request then they have another thing coming. They are intentionally making email even less of a reliable medium than it already is. Personally I blacklist all people I find using TMDA. There is nothing worse than posting to NANOG or some other mailing list and getting 3 TMDA responses from people you've never heard of. Most of them don't quote the message that generated the TMDA request. You're left to wonder 'is this some new spammer trick to get my email address?'. I see it happening in the near future IMHO. Don't use TMDA and the rest of the Internet won't have to blacklist you.
How many AOL Chatroom members does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to replace the lightbulb and one to make sure that the other person doesn't say "nipple"
Dear irc.xchat.org morons, what will you do to find and moderate my posts with -1 stuff if I send in another name?
Its a real funny claim to tell Yahoo doesn't know about security since they have like 300 milllion users. I repeat it. Moderate this down for fun too...
I believe slashdot did everything to prevent abuse but none of coders believed such childish morons would be here.