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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.

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  1. Come hobittses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We will fuck you in safe paths through the mist

  2. Helps please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It back to three years ago I met my girl friend Wendy whom is an ABC (American born Chinese). Because of her fluent Chinese, out relationship developed extremely fast. It was out of my expectation. Although both of our culture difference made us feel not so compatible, We did have sex, which happened in her new moving apartment in fall 2000. It was my first time. I was not sure what I was doing. I was so nerved I couldn't remember that night what I did. However, After that, we started gradually do more and more, Sometimes I felt very good after I did that - having sex. However, good time didn't last too long. I felt Wendy no happy somehow. She complained that I ended so fast and did not know how to make her happy - having an orgasm. I admitted that because I never had that kind of experience and even when I was in school I hadn't have the kind of sex course in my country. Anyway Wendy at this point helped me a lot. She served me wildly, taught me patiently, and showed me what technique I need to. Practice really makes things go perfect.

    After a few time practices, I found a way to make Wendy feel better. When I had sex with her, I played her breast, touched her nibbles; sometimes bit her tits lightly for what she felt good. I used my mouth to suck her tits, stomach, back, arms, legs, hair but her pussy. I used my figures to stimulate her, to rub her pussy, to tickle her clitoris. All of those were good. It was good for her. It made her feel some kind of orgasm. But it only could be good for a while. After a couple of weeks she needed more I didn't know where she had a crazy idea. She wanted me to lick her pussy. No way at all, I responded her right away. This was out of my toleration. I know what it was, I told. I wouldn't do that because I didn't like it. Maybe girls would do that to their boyfriend. Not men like to have oral sex to women as what I knew in my country, I told her. We discussed it many times. She tried to convince my by giving some pictures that a man perform oral sex to a woman, telling many stories about what her friends told her. A couple of times, she took off my pants and sucked my dick and used her tongue to lick my dick head in order to make me do the same way for her. I didn't know what I could say. Honestly, I appreciated what she did to me. However, it got in my nerve already about licking pussy. "Go down there and lick my pussy, ok? Please honey!" those words already drove me like a nut. I really mad at her keep asking me to do that. Sometimes when I heard, I went crazy I was so piss off; I was angry, upset; I felt frustrated, shame, humiliated and disappointed. All of negative mixed feeling came in once in my head. I blew it out many times.

    Oral sex like licking pussy because a big issue between her and me. It was our sexual conflict. Frankly, I don't like pussy smell, I hate that kind of smell. No matter how clean she did it, I didn't like it. I remained remember that she took a longtime shower and used an expensive soap even had perfume on her. I felt disgusting. A few times I almost throw out when I tried to tongue her clitoris. I don't know what is wrong to me. I liked to kiss her back, tits, stomach, neck and outside around of pussy, which I didn't have any problems. My mouth didn't feel sensitive to anything until touched the pussy. I always asked myself how I couldn't do it. It was very easy thing. Perhaps it was psychology obstacle and culture influence. When men gathered together in my counryt, we can hear that how well their girl did to them such as blowjob. Anyway, I don't like to lick pussy because I don't the smell; I feel sick; I don't like to be teased when talk with my Chinese friends about that I already lick pussy. Especially, I need to over come and dump those sick ideals like pussy is dirt and lick it brings unlucky and so on. In addition, I didn't like she said me like a gay because of the way I fuck was so gentle. I promised her that I would change my fucking style and tried hard to overcome all the obstacles. But it needed to take time.

    One Wendy'

  3. Sorry people, who I moderated but... by Ilgaz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    iWon isn't a spyware infested company? I sure remember.

  4. Horrible by macdaddy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  5. How many AOL Chatroom members does it take by Hatechall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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"

  6. Debian is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Debian is Slow, Worse, Expensive

    Open source may be good, but there is one example that sticks out like a sore thumb as a problem with open source. Debian gnu/Linux. It is offically the Worst Linux Distribution ever made.

    First of all, Debian has the most out of date software packages of any major mainstream distros. Even in the unstable version, is KDE 2.2 and Gnome 2.0, with Xfree86 4.1 (A version that really sucks). There are literally years that pass between each update of Debian.

    Secondly, its a pain in the goatse to set up, first of all, you are forced to use Kernel 2.2, which is horribly hacked with "backports" to get any use on any modern machine (Read, made after 1999). Good luck memorizing all the *.ko files in /lib/modules, as you are going to need it.

    Configuring XFree86 is hell! If you don't have a Thick X11 orilley book, and a list of your horizontal sync values from your monitor's intruction manual (if you even have one), BOOM! There goes your monitor.

    Even then, good luck getting anything over 640x480@16 colours.

    The most common response to help questions on the Debian mailing list is "n00b, READ THE FUCKING MANUAL, you idiot, go back to WINDOWS XP if you can't learn to use dselect", true too, search the archives if you think I'm lying. Other distros give you comprehensive PRINTED MANUALS, PHONE SUPPPORT and/or freindly forums where repling RTFM gets you banned!

    Debians support for any decent hardware, including USB mice, scanners, Sound cards, heck even Serial devices struggle. If you can even get 80x25 text mode with PS/2 input devices you are really lucky.

    Apt-get has many flaws. First of all it uses a non standard package format (the rest of the world uses RPM, deprecate the DEB format!), has broken respetories, and out of date software to install. All this combined with the kludgey dselect user interface make package management a nightmare.

    And if you think I'm joking about this, find out why THOUSANDS of Debian users are switching to REAL distributions Debian is falling to pieces, if it is to survive any market share it will be through its superior forks (Xandros, Lindows, K/G-noppix) and unoffical package respetories.

    Of course, while all this is going on, the only thing the Debian maintainers do is argue about politics on the mailing lists. The distribution decays while its creators argue over inane details like software licensing and the virtues of Marxism. Please! Spare me the political rhetoric and just give me a working distro!

    Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and I'm happily using distros such as Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo and Fedora. But I'm sick to death of zealots that push obsolete Distros on me EVERY FREAKING TIME linux is mentioned. I'm speaking from real world experiance here.

  7. Re:I've looked into Yahoo's plan by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.