Yahoo and Unilateral Anti-Spam Technology?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @03:29PM from the nonstandard-headers dept.

EatenByAGrue asks: "According to this Business Week article, Yahoo is planning on distributing a toolkit for Sendmail and other mail daemons that adds an encrypted source domain key to email headers to verify where they came from. However, critics are concerned that the scheme will be easily bypassed and that it ignores standards bodies. What does the Slashdot community (representing countless email admins, I'm sure) think of this proposal? On one hand, its a commercial enterprise dictating standard technology, on the other hand, the standards bodies have proven themselves helpless and hopeless when it comes to providing solutions."

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Re:All together now! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 15:37 · Score: 1, Funny

Spam must be solved by economics and/or behavior. Failing that, I say we hunt the bastards down and shoot them.
Re:All together now! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 15:48 · Score: 2, Funny

we will never have a social solution

Three words:

Tar and Feathers