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Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit problems over Microsoft's involvement in the process.
The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, has rejected Microsoft's contribution to the so-called Sender ID proposal.
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The working group charged by the IETF with looking at the standard has decided that Microsoft's decision to keep a possible patent application secret was unacceptable.
It was also concerned with possible incompatibilities with open source software.
Microsoft remains hopeful that the Sender ID system can be kept alive.
"There's broad support for Sender ID technology and we encourage others to support and implement this technology so that together we can do more to tackle spam," the company said in a statement. [...]
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