Comments on: Microsoft-backed antispam spec gets filtered out

Proposal for verifying the source of e-mail is shelved by the engineers working to turn it from specification to standard.

This is news?

What? Microsoft can?t do something right?

It?s getting downright embarrassing to read about the failures
and ineptitude of Microsoft. I think that there should be no more
news about Microsoft until Longhorn is released. Let?s have
some good news about Bill Gates? company, please, even if we
have to wait 10 more years.

[ubergeekster]

Microsoft shows their greed yet again.

This goes to show how serious they really are
about spam. They want to patent and license the
fix for it even. Why not surcharge it all back to
Microsoft since 80% of it is coming from infected
windows machines. They want to get paid for
causing the problem and then license the fix back
to us?

While i liked the logic behind sender ID it looks
SPF will have to be the solution after all. It feels
good to see Microsoft lose another one when it
tries to control technology. I am left wandering
how much longer they can hold the population of
the world in their firm and controlling grasp. Linux
and Open Source keep removing the leverage
Microsoft have had over the Computer Industry as
a whole.

[Myron.S]

Bloody hoorah!

Nice one. I bet you that the Microsoft lawyers are so seriosuly gutted because they could not dig their claws into the AntiSpam arena. Still, it does not stop them from fileing patent after patent, squeezing the options of the common Internet community.

It would have been better if Mictosoft just published their work under the GNU licence and cancelled the patents to Sender ID.