The promise of e-mail authentication is too good to ignore, but if it is implemented incorrectly it will break a company's mail system instead of fixing it, experts have cautioned.
Bill Gates' prediction of January 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years has virtually no chance of coming true, according to security company Sophos this week.
A long-awaited update to Microsoft's Exchange 2003 mail server has been released, with the key enhancement being the ability to push new e-mail directly to mobile devices.
At the start of last year, Bill Gates told the world's elite at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, that the problem of spam would be solved in two years.
An anti-spam technology that focuses on identifying forged e-mail addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco, Yahoo and partners.
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The tactical battle between Web users and spammers is stepping up a gear. We look at what is being done to bring an end the endless avalanche of junk email before we're all buried by it.
The world's e-mail network is no longer the friendly place it once was and authentication could mean the end for the platform as we know it.
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper asks whether the tech industry is only kidding itself about what it will take to fight the plague.
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