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[FYI] Competing technologies could shake up e-mail



<http://www.thestandard.com/article.php?story=2004030203345338>

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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