New Standard Could Reduce Spam Reuters 04:52 PM May. 18, 2004 PT WASHINGTON -- Internet portal Yahoo released an e-mail standard Tuesday that prevents spammers from hiding unwanted messages behind legitimate e-mail addresses.
The technique, if widely adopted, could help Internet service providers more easily block the unwanted bulk messages that currently account for up to two-thirds of all e-mail traffic. Yahoo's proposed standard, known as DomainKeys, would embed outgoing messages with an encrypted digital signature matched to a signature on the server that sends the message. Internet service providers could check the signatures on incoming messages and block those that do not match up. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63513,00.html?tw=newsletter_topsto ries_html (apologies if the link breaks on sending the message) There's a link in the story itself with more details on Yahoo!'s proposal and more. -Joe
