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Microsoft Will Submit 'Caller ID' To The IETF

Posted by timothy on from the who's-calling-please dept.

An anonymous reader submits "According to a recent mailing list post by Harry Katz who is the Program Manager of Exchange at Microsoft, they plan to submit MSFT's "Caller ID" proposal to the IETF: 'I want to inform members of the MARID working group that Microsoft will shortly be submitting the Caller ID for E-mail specification to the IETF as an Informational RFC. We request that the Caller ID specification be considered an input document to the working group's deliberations.'"

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  1. Hope it won't be as bad as Caller ID by Bishop923 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about other areas, but around here 90% of the telemarketer calls show up on Caller ID as one of the following:
    "Out of the Area", "Private", or the state of origin. "Oh boy, someone in California is calling, that only narrows it down to 40 Million people..."

    Doubt this will be different, just a few extra bytes added to every E-Mail, clogging up the networks worse than before.

  2. Won't work by ogre57 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If this scheme were magically globally implemented today it would reduce email spam by 50% at most, and for a few weeks at best. I see zero reason to believe that one month from now the spam rate would be even 1% less than it was yesterday, especially considering this years virus fun so far. Nor will it reduce the CAN-SPAM oxymoron of "legitmate spam", eg attempts to sell the political candidates.

    With no reason to believe this RFC will accomplish even its purported intent no one sane will waste time and money to implement it. Expect the few morons who do to block more legit mail than spam.

  3. Re:What is an Informational RFC by dustman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No blatant typos and grammer can't completely suck

    Oh, the irony!

  4. Re:Caller ID a broken system by base3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PKI? You're kidding, right? I am most decidedly not interested in paying a tithe (either directly, or via my ISP) to RSA, Verisign, Microsoft, or whoever the root CA would be in order to send email. I doubt too many other people are, either.

    --
    One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
  5. Eliminate spam: Use GPG by aminorex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have *never* recieved a spam email which was
    encrypted with my public key.

    If GPG shipped with every email app out of the box,
    there would be no spam. It's free, it's here now.

    I will not read your unencrypted email.

    --
    -I like my women like I like my tea: green-
  6. Re:Eliminate spam: Use GPG by Anonnymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This scheme works great if all your friends happen to be hopeless nerds. Unfortunately, some of mine aren't :).