Yahoo! Mail Now Using Domain Keys To Fight Spam

scubacuda points out this CNET story, writing "In addition to beefing up its storage (100MB -> 250MB), Yahoo! Mail has implemented Domain Keys to find spam. The idea is simple: give email providers a way to verify the domain and integrity of the messages sent. Sendmail, Inc. has released an open source implementation of the Yahoo! DomainKeys specification for testing on the Internet and is actively seeking participants and feedback for its Pilot Program. Yahoo! has submitted the DomainKeys framework as an Internet Draft, titled 'draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01.txt,' for publication with the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The patent license agreement can be found here."

Comments

Re:Licence

[pe1rxq]

Its a bit like the BSD with advertising license...
(Although only in source & object code so not on boxes or ads and stuff, but even object code is already a problem)
It seems reasonable at first (Just one line saying 'thank you Yahoo') but it has the same problem as the BSD license had: You end up with an ever growing amount of lines of all kind of people wanting the world to know you used a pieco of their 'IP'.

Imagine a helloworld program like this:

~$hello
Hello world
This program was compiled using the GNU C compiler ,Copyright The Free software foundation, Richard Stallman, etc
This program uses header files written by Linus Torvalds.
This program was linked against the GNU C library
This program was written in the C language which contains IP from K&R.
This program uses SCO owned IP.


Would it be a great world if all software was like this?

Jeroen