Sender-ID Back From The Dead

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Posted by timothy on Monday October 25, 2004 @04:50PM from the sometimes-they-come-back dept.

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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What do I think??? by adam31 · 2004-10-25 16:55 · 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.
Re:Uh oh...What's that sound? by commodoresloat · 2004-10-25 17:20 · 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.
Re:Licensing changes? by metlin · 2004-10-25 18:41 · 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. ;-)
Re:AOL is the 90 pound Chimp by Des+Herriott · 2004-10-26 00:42 · Score: 3, Funny

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