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    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.

  • Sender ID's fading message

    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.

  • Yahoo and Cisco put anti-spam standard forward

    An anti-spam technology that focuses on identifying forged e-mail addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco, Yahoo and partners.

  • Spammers use anti-spam protocols to bypass filters

    Spammers have discovered ways of working round protocols that were originally designed to kill spam by allowing e-mail gateways to authenticate the origin of any e-mail. This abuse effectively renders the technologies useless, according to security experts.

  • Antispam proposals advance

    An Internet standards group has approved two "experimental" antispam proposals, sidestepping a controversy dividing Microsoft and its e-mail competitors.

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  • Stamping out spam

    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 end of e-mail?

    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.

  • Ultimate anti-spam guide: 11 products tested

    From server-level software, to appliances, to managed services, we review the latest anti-spam solutions to help enterprises manage the onslaught of unsightly spam.

  • Tech execs: Wake up and smell the spam

    It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.

  • Microsoft-backed antispam spec gets filtered out

    A Microsoft-backed proposal for verifying the source of e-mail has been shelved by the Internet engineers working to turn it from specification to standard, in a final blow for antispam technology Sender ID.

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