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Despite the clamouring hordes calling for 'something to be done', the amount of spam sent whizzing around the Internet is increasing at a rapid rate -- and looks like it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
America Online said Thursday that it will not support a Microsoft-backed antispam technology called Sender ID.
Microsoft is lobbying to combine its technical proposal for authenticating e-mail with a competing process, backed by America Online.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.
For almost two years, I've argued for a non-proprietary, interoperable, freely deployable anti-spam standard, even as every spam-fighting solution I've seen has failed to pass muster. Until now.
E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?
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A coalition aiming to junk e-mail unites behind a US law but stumbles over a technology solution.
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Once as free as the air we breathe, most Web-based e-mail accounts now come with all kinds of strings attached. We test four different services to find out if these so-called free e-mailers are worth the hassle.
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