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Certified Email Not Here to Reduce Spam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you've-got-spam dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Goodmail CEO Richard Gingras surprised Legislators and advocacy groups today when he announced that the CertifiedMail program being implemented by AOL and Yahoo is not meant to reduce spam. Rather than helping to reduce spam Gingras claimed that the point is to allow users to verify who important messages are really from, like a message from your bank or credit card company."

7 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Blue Frog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Holy crap, I fail hard.

    Here's the link without looking quite so retarded.

  2. Can't login by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It appears that site you posted, http://666.43.123.666/bankofamerica/mylogin.php, has already been slashdotted. Anyone know a mirror where I can login to my account?

    1. Re:Can't login by deep44 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I usually hop on one of the bankofamerica.com.geocities.com mirrors, but they also seem to be down right now (or somebody forgot to pay their hosting bill). When this has happened in the past, I usually just open my windows and start shouting my SSN and major credit card numbers until somebody steals my identity.

  3. "Certified" by oGMo · · Score: 2, Funny
    Certified, v.tr.
    4. To declare to be in need of psychiatric treatment or confinement.

    Yeah someone's certifiable here.

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  4. Trust but verify. That it's crap. by DysenteryInTheRanks · · Score: 5, Funny
    The only real solution to stop from being misled by online con artists is to examine each link in a chain of Internet communication to ensure it is from a trustworthy, reliable source.

    Email address, Web URL, refering party -- each should be bulletproof BEFORE you extend your trust. Otherwise, you might get scammed.

    Take this article. We know it's reliable and trustworthy. How?

    Well it was submitted by "anonymous reader," who has posted many a fine gem on this here site.

    Then it was filtered by an "editor" named "ScuttleMonkey." How can you not trust a monkey? Monkeys rock!

    Then, when you click on the link, you see you have been taken to "Spam Daily News," a bastion of journalistic integrity that makes the New York Times look like the New York Times before Judy Miller got fired.

    Finally, the whole thing originated from a little place we like to call "Slashdot." I think the quality of this brand needs no elaboration.

    So as you can see, it is not hard to recognize a secure, reliable, not-at-all-misleading-or-shady chain of Internet links. Happy surfing!

  5. Only one thing will work... by DigitalRaptor · · Score: 1, Funny

    Capital punishment.

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  6. Try this one... by mattmacf · · Score: 4, Funny
    Give http://127.0.0.1/bankofamerica/mylogin.php a shot. From what I gather, it uses a super-secret unbreakable open source, ROT26, GNU/Linux, AES, one-time pad, AJAX, NSA, quantum encryption mechanism that guarantees your identity will never be stolen.

    Functionality may be limited.

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