Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Over three years ago I wrote a small draft to define a format for reporting spam that is readable by machines as well as humans. Three years later (a few weeks ago), AOL announced that they will be switching their feedback loops to that format. I am hoping it will ...
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Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Dave Winer points to a NY Times story on the use of Goodmail by AOL which I pointed out eariler. Apparently, Yahoo is on the act as well.
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
A recent post on Circle-ID by Matt Blumberg states that AOL is planning to charge some commercial senders for specific types of emails. A related story makes things a bit more clearer:
In a bid to protect its members from e-mail fraud and phishing, and to offer consistency to commercial e-mail ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
While perusing the news, I came across a rather interestingly titled article at CNET: "Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high". As many other spam-related stories, this one had an apocalyptic feel to it as well:
According to the SpamHaus Project--a U.K.-based antispam compiler of blacklists that block 8 billion messages ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
John Levine just posted an excellent article from Carl Hutzler of AOL about how the real solution to spam is accountability and action by ISPs on their own outbound traffic. Excellent read.
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...
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Saturday, September 4th, 2004
Quite a few things happened in MARID. First, an extension of the last call was announced for Friday, September 10th. Second, the Debian Project rejected Sender-ID. Third, Earthlink is leaning against Sender-ID also (which especially suprising since the other three members of the ASTA are for it).
UPDATE: After getting an ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2003
According to this News.com story, AOL is offering a M$FT Windows XP PC for $299 if you sign up for AOL Service for a year. They also have a website "299pcdeal.com". BUT, the most interesting stuff is on their site and documentation. This PC comes with ... AOL Office by ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2003
There have been rumors for a few months about the secretive Microsoft / AOL alliance against spam. A recent story revealed some of those plans:
"One organization working on sender-authentication mechanism is a commercial alliance comprising the biggest consumer e-mail providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, America Online and Earthlink.""Under the proposal, ISPs and ...
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