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Sender-ID Back From The Dead

NW writes "Microsoft's Sender-ID standard has been left for the dead since the rejection earlier this fall by the IETF. According to a Reuters story, it has been revised and will be resubmitted to the IETF. Along the way, Microsoft managed to pick up AOL's endorsement of Sender-ID. My humble analysis appears here."

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  1. What do I think??? by adam31 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Oh yeah, when I want to know my opinion the first thing I do is see what AOL thinks.

    ...right after holding my wetted finger to the slashdot wind, of course.

  2. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that guy's site is going to make some massive revenue via google adsense

  3. Re:AOL's support is solid by bcrowell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dancing Santa got a -1 Score for suggesting Microsoft is doing a good thing?
    You must be new here ;-)

  4. Re:Uh oh...What's that sound? by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    Over half of you don't even know what Sender ID is or how it works.

    What are you talking about? Why is that relevant? Didn't you see "Microsoft" in the article summary? And, as if that wasn't a clear enough message what to think, it also said "AOL." Sender ID is bad bad bad. Not only won't it work, it represents the most insidious kind of fascism. An open source solution would obviously be better, and more liberating.

    Slashdot.... Fuck yeah!

    Matt Daemon.

  5. Re:AOL's support is solid by dtfinch · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, a good thing is doing Microsoft for suggesting a score of -1 that gets new Dancing Santa here who must be You! (-;

  6. Re:Licensing changes? by metlin · · Score: 4, Funny


    AOL is their own little world.

    And... that is bad how?!?!

    Do you really want them little tiny-tot AOLers coming at you?

    It seems you've been leading two lives, Mr. Finch. In one life, you're a nice Slashdotter, with excellent Karma who even M2Ms reguarly. In another life, you're an AOL user. You use AIM, chat with 14 y.o. with teenage girls and help your landlord find his pr0n.

    One of these lives has a future, one of them does not. ;-)

  7. Re:AOL is the 90 pound Chimp by fatphil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, the "moderators" should of noticed that. If they had, probably they all of the sudden would have changed their minds about moderating. I have a deep-seeded hatred for such errors, they make me loose my mind. However, moderators do have free reign.

    However, attacking the intended payload due to presentation issues (inability use a pat phrase correctly) is a classic Logical Fallacy. Some people spend so little time with authoratitive written material that the correct forms may never have been seen, and only the spoken version encountered.

    FP.

    --
    Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
  8. Sender-ID back from the dead ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... just in time for halloween! :D

  9. Re:AOL is the 90 pound Chimp by Des+Herriott · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to mention "they all of the sudden" and "loose my mind" (why, was it too tight?)

  10. How to ride a Dead Horse by RealBorg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Old tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Businesses, however, often try other strategies. These include...

    1. Buying a stronger whip.

    2. Changing riders.

    3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse"

    4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

    5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

    6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

    7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

    8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

    9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.

    10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead".

    11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.

    12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

    13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."

    14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.

    15. Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.

    16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.

    17. Declare the horse is now "better, faster and cheaper."

    18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.

    19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.

    20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.

    21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.