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Yahoo and Unilateral Anti-Spam Technology?

Posted by Cliff on 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."

7 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. PUT A FILTER ON YOUR TOASTER!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
    so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
    thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
    MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is third post!

  4. Re:fp, NOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU FAIL IT!!!!!

    The CSLib Menace owns you in 2k4!

  5. Re:hi, NOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NOPE!

    You were actually 4th post, can you not could to 4! DUMB FUCK!

  6. Re:Standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of course, if Microsoft had created this toolkit, not Yahoo, we'd hear nothing but incessant bitching from the morons here at Slashdot, and a refusal to implement it.

    Sure, it's offtopic, but it's the truth...

  7. Completely and totally offtopic, but... by adun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As I look to my left on the main page, I'm greeted with an OSDN Personals ad. ...

    HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    In all seriousness, did anyone actually CONSIDER that brain fart before passing it?