Microsoft to employ pro-merchant whitelist technology for validating spam

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Microsoft adopts IronPort anti-spam
"whitelist"

Microsoft adopts IronPort anti-spam
"whitelist" 05/05/2004 09:56 AM
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said on Wednesday it has adopted an e-mail "whitelist" program by IronPort Systems Inc. that will allow legitimate marketers to thread the gauntlet of spam filters protecting its inboxes. Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN e-mail services, which together claim 170 million regular users, will require marketers to put money up front if they wish to ensure their messages aren't mistaken for unwanted spam.

Employ the Services of a Technology
Travel Agent for Your Next Computer
Rental

Employ the Services of a Technology
Travel Agent for Your Next Computer
Rental 02/06/2005 03:00 AM
A Technology Travel Agent© from Rentacomputer.com can handle your technology reservations the same way your travel agent handles your airline and hotel reservations. [PRWEB Feb 6, 2005]

Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services
For Hotmail

Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services
For Hotmail 05/05/2004 08:17 AM

Microsoft pushes spam-filtering
technology

Microsoft pushes spam-filtering
technology 06/24/2005 03:25 PM
ZDNet Jun 23 2005 2:00AM GMT

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology 09/16/2004 06:55 PM
AP via Daily Press Sep 16 2004 11:16PM GMT

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology
(AP)

AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam Technology
(AP) 09/16/2004 05:06 PM
AP - Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited "tepid support" for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins.

SPF, AOL Whitelist Misunderstood;
Microsoft and AOL Call for SenderID
(SPF) Industry Collaboration

SPF, AOL Whitelist Misunderstood;
Microsoft and AOL Call for SenderID
(SPF) Industry Collaboration 06/22/2004 10:43 AM
Opt-in News Jun 22 2004 2:15PM GMT

Update 2: AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam
Technology

Update 2: AOL Shuns Microsoft Anti-Spam
Technology 09/17/2004 08:21 AM
Forbes Sep 17 2004 12:47PM GMT

Microsoft Offers Technology Designed to
Help Protect Inboxes From Spam

Microsoft Offers Technology Designed to
Help Protect Inboxes From Spam 11/17/2003 11:36 AM
TopHosts.com Nov 17 2003 10:52AM ET

Microsoft offers technology designed to
protect inboxes from spam

Microsoft offers technology designed to
protect inboxes from spam 01/05/2004 06:15 AM
AME Info Jan 5 2004 5:36AM ET

Microsoft and Meng Wong to Merge Caller
ID for E-Mail and SPF Anti-Spam
Technology Proposals

Microsoft and Meng Wong to Merge Caller
ID for E-Mail and SPF Anti-Spam
Technology Proposals 05/25/2004 11:30 PM
icrosoft Corp., author of the Caller ID for E-mail proposal, and Meng Wong, co-founder and CTO of Pobox.com and author of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), have announced today that they have agreed to converge the two proposals into one specification designed to help eliminate domain spoofing and provide greater protection against phishing schemes. By providing a unified specification, Microsoft and Wong hope to simplify industry adoption of effective e-mail authentication technology, thereby helping to more swiftly provide greater spam protection to e mail users worldwide.

AOL's New Whitelist Policy (Not What You
Heard)- SPF's New Name - Microsoft + AOL
Call for Widespread Collaboration and
Answer THE Question: Publish SPF Now or
Wait for Future Standards?

AOL's New Whitelist Policy (Not What You
Heard)- SPF's New Name - Microsoft + AOL
Call for Widespread Collaboration and
Answer THE Question: Publish SPF Now or
Wait for Future Standards? 06/24/2004 02:53 AM
Microsoft, AOL and SPF Developer Meng Weng Wong answer questions about the SPF technology, the new SenderID format, what organizations are supposed to be doing now and what it means for every organization that sends email (bulk or otherwise). Microsoft and AOL explain the rapidly growing collaboration & how AOL will be using SPF for inbound email delivery & whitelisting. ASTA's (ISPs anti-spam coalition) initiatives and best practice recommendations editorial. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam

New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam 04/02/2005 02:50 AM
Slashdot Apr 2 2005 5:43AM GMT

WhiteList 0.0.2

WhiteList 0.0.2 04/14/2004 01:15 PM
Allows incoming email from only those addresses on your whitelist.

Microsoft calls for outbound spam
filtering against spam

Microsoft calls for outbound spam
filtering against spam 06/04/2004 10:42 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 4 2004 2:14PM GMT

Class-Validating-0.01

Class-Validating-0.01 01/04/2005 06:25 PM

Validating HTML

Validating HTML 06/05/2004 07:34 AM

I've been playing around with the W3C HTML validator, and I've found, sadly, that there's no easy way to get this page to validate. There were some problems that I fixed, but when I try to validate against 4.01 Transitional, I get about 50 errors related to the use of "&" in URLs.

Apparently you're supposed to use the HTML entity for the ampersand ("&") even in URLs. But since this entitiy isn't present in the URL in the address bar of the browser, and that's where you generally copy the URL from, how are you supposed to convert these without manually picking through every URL you use? You could try to get funky with regular expressions, but I can't imagine that would work perfectly in every case.

This brings up a larger point in that you can't really expect to validate a site where a large part of the HTML of the page is provided by people other than the original Web developer. Every entry on this page — comprising the entire middle section — can be entered by someone else, and how can I make sure they're entering valid HTML markup?

This is where HTML Tidy integration will work very well in PHP 5. Using this tool, you can validate HTML that people enter before you store it in the database, or before you output it. You can make sure all tags are closed, all tags match, etc. so perhaps you can hope for some sort of valid markup.

But, in an even larger sense, does validation matter much? I've never gotten any comment from anyone about the validation of this site. So what that I'm throwing 50 errors because of ampersands in URLs — can someone provide me with a valid (excuse the pun) reason why this matters?

I understand problems can occur from gross misuse of the HTML spec, but are all validation errors created equal? My apparent misuse of ampersands has got to rank pretty low on the sin list.

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Validating a Custom DTD

Validating a Custom DTD 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
In his article in this issue, Peter-Paul Koch proposes adding custom attributes to form elements to allow triggers for specialized behaviors. The W3C validator won't validate a document with these attributes, as they aren't part of the XHTML specification. Not to worry! This article will show you how to create a custom DTD that will add those custom attributes, and will also show you how to validate documents that use those new attributes.

Class-Validating-0.02

Class-Validating-0.02 01/06/2005 07:04 AM

Really validating XML with DTDs (XML
Journal)

Really validating XML with DTDs (XML
Journal) 06/18/2002 02:20 PM

PHPKitchen: Validating URLs with PHP

PHPKitchen: Validating URLs with PHP 08/16/2004 08:45 AM
In a pointer from PHPKitchen.com today, there's a script highlighted for anyone out there looking to validate any kind of URL conforming to just about any kinds of rules.

Better Technology Predictions Through
Spam

Better Technology Predictions Through
Spam 01/05/2004 06:10 AM
I've been doing my best to avoid all those "my predictions for 2004" articles out there, but Salon has put together a good list of tongue-firmly-in-cheek predictions, including two that are inspired by spam. First, they say that the demand for porn decreases as, thanks to spam, men and women suddenly find their real life sex life fulfilling. Second, they predict that any real advancements in regaining hair or causing weight loss will be ignored by those disillusioned by such claims in all the spam they get. Other good predictions: Google admits that they really just want to take over the world and Osama bin Laden is caught via his Friendster addiction. Finally, a predictions article worth reading.

Planet Perl feeds not validating

Planet Perl feeds not validating 02/10/2004 03:56 PM
It was brought to our attention that the Planet Perl RSS feeds doesn't validate. Both feeds are not encoding my name from the configuration file and the RSS 2.0 feed is using an invalid date format apparently. This is where you, dear reader, comes in. I know you are bouncing in your chair from excitement for fixing the python code already. The PlanetPlanet site is empty, so I'm not quite sure where to send patches, but when they are made...

Danes Employ Child-Finding Device (AP)

Danes Employ Child-Finding Device (AP) 04/29/2004 11:58 AM
AP - Parents visiting the Legoland amusement park in western Denmark can now rent small tracking gadgets for their children to wear around their wrist.

Yahoo Manual Exclusions and Inclusions :
aka: BOW Whitelist

Yahoo Manual Exclusions and Inclusions :
aka: BOW Whitelist 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
"Some Yahoo serps look very much like they have been manually altered. When you scroll over the serp rankings you will notice that the sites on top contain H=1 tags in their url strings."

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics 09/17/2004 10:19 AM
AP via Los Angeles Times Sep 17 2004 2:16PM GMT

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics
(AP)

Kimono-Makers Employ Computer Graphics
(AP) 09/18/2004 10:51 PM
AP - For centuries, Japan's kimono-makers have relied on stencils, paintbrushes and hours of labor to turn out their elaborate and graceful creations. Kimono designer Yuko Iwakuma uses some more up-to-date tools: a computer and an ink-jet printer.

IBM releases new anti-spam technology

IBM releases new anti-spam technology 03/23/2005 03:22 PM
TechWorld Mar 23 2005 6:13PM GMT

Validating a Credit Card Number with
JavaScript

Validating a Credit Card Number with
JavaScript 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

California local governments
cooperate... to employ more lawyers

California local governments
cooperate... to employ more lawyers 08/29/2004 08:36 AM

This AP story about California local governments suing Microsoft for monopoly pricing in their sales to city and county governments is interesting.  It is not clear why any of these plaintiffs need Windows.  A lot of their desktops are probably still running Win98.  One can argue the relative merits of GNU/Linux versus WinXP but it is obvious that GNU/Linux and the free OpenOffice suite are more powerful than older versions of Microsoft products.  In a state with thousands of unemployed programmers you'd think that these governments could have cooperated to hire 100 programmers to port some of their Windows-only applications to Web-based or GNU/Linux apps.  Instead they cooperated to hire 100 lawyers so that they can shackle themselves to Microsoft for another 10 years but at a slightly lower price.

[Back in 1997, I proposed that the Federales hire Linux developers instead of using Microsoft Word to write anti-Microsoft complaints.  It has been seven years and still our government prefers to hire lawyers rather than programmers.  Can we blame children if they decide to go to law school rather than doing something that will add to the G.D.P.?] 

Firms employ nurses to stop "sickies"
(Reuters)

Firms employ nurses to stop "sickies"
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 10:33 AM
Reuters - Employees planning a sickie might think twice if they have to explain themselves to a nurse, according to a management firm.

A child-safe SMTP whitelist with Postfix
and MySQL

A child-safe SMTP whitelist with Postfix
and MySQL 12/17/2004 06:35 PM
Worried about your children receiving adult-oriented spam while on the Internet? I was. Here's how I solved the problem by protecting their email addresses using Postfix and MySQL.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam messages on
the increase

BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam messages on
the increase 05/26/2004 07:25 AM
BBC NEWS: Spam messages on the increase .. Grrr .. BBCi .. bbc

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AOL shuns Microsoft’s anti-spam
technology

AOL shuns Microsoft’s anti-spam
technology 09/22/2004 08:20 AM

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AOL shuns Microsoft's anti-spam
technology

AOL shuns Microsoft's anti-spam
technology 09/16/2004 06:55 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 16 2004 10:48PM GMT

Spam Versus Technology: The Battle Rages
On

Spam Versus Technology: The Battle Rages
On 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Unsolicited e-mail, called spam, seems to persist with all the resilience of a plague of mosquitoes. Are those who yearn for a spam-free existence ever likely to see their wish granted? Unfortunately, say some analysts, the answer may be a resounding no.

China to employ high-tech and sex
education in war on Internet porn (AFP)

China to employ high-tech and sex
education in war on Internet porn (AFP) 08/01/2004 06:44 PM
AFP - China plans a multi-pronged approach to its fight against Internet porn, employing both high technology and sex education to stop young people from visiting lewd websites, state media said.

Linux.com: A child-safe SMTP whitelist
with Postfix and MySQL

Linux.com: A child-safe SMTP whitelist
with Postfix and MySQL 12/17/2004 06:35 PM
"Worried about your children receiving adult-oriented spam while on the Internet? I was..."

Network Associates patents anti-spam
technology

Network Associates patents anti-spam
technology 06/03/2004 06:57 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 10:15AM GMT
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