[FYI] Competing technologies could shake up e-mail
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Competing technologies could shake up e-mail
Tuesday, March 02 2004 @ 03:34 AM GMT
By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Microsoft Corp.'s announcement at the RSA Conference last week of a
host of initiatives to stop unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam,
highlighted some tectonic shifts taking place in the once staid world
of Internet messaging.
The company's new e-mail authentication architecture, known as
"Caller ID," is being met with cautious acceptance. However,
Microsoft will probably not have the last word on secure e-mail, and
a shake-out of antispam solutions backed by Microsoft, Yahoo Inc.,
America Online Inc. and others is likely in coming months, experts
warn.
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