E-mail authentication services have arrived, and they're taking hold fast. Both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA) of companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, EarthLink, and AOL have made their positions clear: The next major step in the coordinated war on spam must address the fraud-prone nature of current e-mail technology.

The e-mail-processing industry agrees authenticating e-mail is a good thing. The ability to conclusively determine where an e-mail originated has advantages to both senders and receivers. An ISP can detect whether an e-mail was sent from an authorized source and, thus, potentially bypass a few layers of content filtering, saving processing power.


Authentication Is No Longer Optional Posted by: DTB at 12:40 PM  |  Permalink