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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Intellectual Rights Kills Anti-Spam Measure
  • Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:03:56 -0400 (EDT)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040927/ap_on_hi_te/spam_wars
>
> Anti-Spam Effort Killed Amid Patent Row
> By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
>
> NEW YORK - A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp.
> has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to
> create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.
>
> The failure to reach consensus on the Microsoft-championed proposal
> known as Sender ID throws back to the free market a process many
> consider urgent in view of the unabating onslaught of spam.

Sender ID? Is that the same as challenge-response? I forget what the
general consensus was on INW about this measure; I'm sure Champeon would
have a thing or two to say, were he present.

Too bad. We might be able to fix the Internet if everyone weren't so busy
trying to own it.

-Alan





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