Friday, May 25th, 2007
DomainKeys or DKIM, a standard for signing email which was proposed by Yahoo over 2 years ago, was finally approved by the IETF and published as RFC 4871. Congrats to all the people that made it possible.
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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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Friday, January 6th, 2006
After over a year of pre-WG work, the IETF finally chartered a new WG to work on DKIM (merger of Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's IdenfitiedMail). John Levine has more on this.
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
For quite some time I have been using Google's AdSense ads. Today I tried changing some of the individual and category archives to the beta of theYahoo Publisher program and also tried out Kanoodle's BrightAds. In two words ... they stink. While the Google AdSense at least had ads on ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Andy mentions a rather interesting list message from Sam Varshavchik, the author of Courier (an open source MTA licensed under the GPL):
> I was wondering if (Yahoo"s) Domainkeys is considered to be implemented in Courier.
No. Yahoo has patent claims on Domainkeys, which are not licensed under GPL-compatible terms.
For the curious, ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
The IETF just published a security review of MASS proposals, specifically DomainKeys and IIM (hat tip to Andrew Newton, former co-chair of MARID WG). Two main security concerns highlighted are replay attacks and DOS attacks, both of each have been mentioned in the ASRG some time ago. As for replay ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
According to a post on Google's Official blog, a new feature will be available to fight comment spammers. Adding a "rel=nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks will prevent spammer links from being harvested by search engines. According to the post major blog software vendors are supporting this move. The solution itself is ...
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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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Sunday, November 14th, 2004
According to a CNET article, Yahoo will begin on Monday to sign all outgoing email with DomainKeys signatures:
Yahoo on Monday will begin attaching antispam technology to all of its outgoing e-mails, hoping that other providers will follow suit. Messages from its free e-mail service will include a "Domain Key," a ...
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Sunday, October 17th, 2004
According to to a post at IETF's MAIL-SIG list by my old collegue, John Levine; Google has begun to sign outgoing email from Gmail with Yahoo's DomainKeys signatures. This is the first large provider of email that is actually doing so (not even Yahoo has started that yet). A quick ...
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