Anti-spam software and hardware maker IronPort won a major victory for its whitelist service with the announcement Wednesday that Microsoft (Quote, Chart) was joining its ranks.

Scott Weiss, CEO of the San Bruno, Calif.-based company, said he's been in constant contact with two other major U.S. email providers -- AOL (Quote, Chart) and Yahoo! (Quote, Chart) -- and expects to make big announcements in the "ensuing weeks" now that the company behind MSN and Hotmail is on board.

"I can't even begin to tell you the number of fire-rings we had to jump through for Microsoft, to go live and in production," Weiss told internetnews.com. "Literally, they have put us through so many paces, I think the other ISPs can now feel comfortable that a big guy has smacked us around enough that we are going to be an obedient provider of this service and be Johnny-on-the-spot if there are any problems or issues," he said.
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