Microsoft’s “E-mail Caller ID”
February 24, 2004 on 6:46 pm | In Current Affairs |Recently, Bill Gates of Microsoft has been pretty outspoken about controlling SPAM, including charging money for e-mail. One of Microsoft’s proposals is called “Caller ID for E-mail.”
“Caller ID for E-Mail: The Next Step to Deterring Spam” is the Microsoft draft specification to address the widespread problem of domain spoofing. Domain spoofing refers specifically to the use of someone else’s domain name when sending a message, and is part of the larger spoofing problem, the practice of forging the sender’s address on e-mail messages…Caller ID for e-mail would verify that each e-mail message originates from the Internet domain it claims to come from. Eliminating domain spoofing will help legitimate senders protect their domain names and reputations, and help recipients more effectively identify and filter junk e-mail.
Now for the patent caveat….according to the license, “Microsoft believes that it has patent rights (patent(s) and/or pending applications(s)) that are necessary for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that comply with one or more aspects of the Caller ID for E-mail Specification.”
[via Happy Software Prole blog]
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