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Microsoft and Yahoo! Fight Spam - Sort Of
kyndig writes "In a Forbes article, Microsoft claims that 90% of email on the internet is spam. To fight this, Yahoo! has teamed with Cisco in developing DKIM, a signature based email authentication. Not to be outdone, Microsoft is proposing SenderID, which examines an email to see if it is coming from an authorized server. Earthlink's chief technology officer, Tripp Cox, goes on to examine the pro's and con's of each specification and provides practical application results." From the article: "Critics have accused Microsoft forcing SenderID on the industry without addressing questions about perceived shortcomings. The company drew fresh criticism recently when reports claimed that its Hotmail service would delete all messages without a valid SenderID record beginning in November. While AOL uses SPF, many e-mail systems do not. If Microsoft went through with this, for example, a significant portion of valid e-mails would never reach intended Hotmail recipients."
Don't be so anally obsessive. It's not a big deal in the greater scheme of things and it's certainly not something that moderators will waste mod points on.
(Hope you note that I got all the apostrophes in the right places.)
Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones.
That's 'anally retentive'. Anally obsessive is more descriptive of rainbow flaggers.