Industry cooperates to cut spamPosted 29/06/2004
In the future people who take care to protect themselves will receive a lot less spam says Microsoft.
Although there will be much more junk-mail around in coming months and years computer companies are finally working together to tackle the problem.
"One company alone cannot solve this," George Webb of Microsoft's anti-spam strategy told the BBC.
Originally Microsoft, working with Amazon and Brightmail had a competing spam-tackling proposal to AOL, Yahoo, BT and others but the two groups have been brought together to create one proposal called Sender ID.
"We need to take action as an industry because before now there's been a lot of talk," said Mr Webb. "Once you get consensus you want it rapidly adopted."
And he said the organisations involved are currently finishing up on converging the specifications for submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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