Yahoo Releases E-Mail Standard to Fight Spam

Yahoo Releases E-Mail Standard to Fight Spam

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May 20, 2004
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Yahoo Inc. this week released standard that would embed outgoing messages with an encrypted digital signature matched to a signature on the server computer that sends the message. The technique, if widely adopted, would prevent spammers from hiding unwanted messages behind legitimate e-mail addresses.

Yahoos DomainKeys, first announced last December, is one of several attempts to help legitimate messages stand out from the flood of spam.

Read the full story at Yahoo! News

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