The Internet industry has been waging a quiet battle for bragging rights to being king of the e-mail security mountain in recent months. Proponents of a new e-mail security standard dubbed Sender ID might soon claim that title. More than 80 members of the E-mail Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) gathered at the Microsoft campus on August 12 for a summit on the Sender ID Framework. The Coalition provides e-mail delivery services to more than 250,000 clients in North America. Members of the group voiced strong consensus for authenticated e-mail solutions to the problems of spam, domain spoofing and phishing.
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Sender ID Gains Favor for Top E-Mail Security
Posted by: Jack M. Germain August 19, 2004 06:00 AMThe Internet industry has been waging a quiet battle for bragging rights to being king of the e-mail security mountain in recent months. Proponents of a new e-mail security standard dubbed Sender ID might soon claim that title. More than 80 members of the E-mail Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) gathered at the Microsoft campus on August 12 for a summit on the Sender ID Framework. The Coalition provides e-mail delivery services to more than 250,000 clients in North America. Members of the group voiced strong consensus for authenticated e-mail solutions to the problems of spam, domain spoofing and phishing.