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June 23, 2004

4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight Spam

Spam is a HUGE problem and only getting worse. I'm glad to note that the NY Times is reporting that Four large Internet service providers agreed yesterday to a partial truce in their battle with one another over potential technology to stop junk e-mail in hopes that they can devote their united energy to fighting spam.

More than a year ago the four providers - America Online, Yahoo, EarthLink and Microsoft - said that they would work together to create technical standards that could verify the identity of the sender of an e-mail message. (full story)

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