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MSN Postmaster Services Launches

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

April 18, 2006, 11:13 AM

Microsoft on Tuesday officially launched MSN Postmaster Services, which provides tools and information to ISPs on how they can work with Microsoft's e-mail filtering to ensure their messages reach Hotmail customers. ISPs can also review complaint reports and track e-mail sent to MSN that has been tagged as junk.

The service launched in early beta last year and is part of a number initiatives by Microsoft to reduce spam. The Redmond company on Tuesday also touted the success of the Sender ID framework, which verifies the domain an e-mail claims to originate from. MSN Postmaster Services is completely free and is currently available in English with other languages forthcoming.

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By Das mod

posted Apr 18, 2006 - 11:25 AM

welll, at least is free .... unlike AOL's monopolistic proposal

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By PC_Tool

edited Apr 18, 2006 - 12:07 PM

"monopolistic"

I do not think that word means what you think it means... ;)

AOL's solution sucked. I'll give you that, but I defend their right to suck...AOL is not a monopoly.

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By Das mod

posted Apr 18, 2006 - 12:18 PM

i dont think AOL is a monopoly either, i just think the "email-fee" was ....
since they'd be the only ones controlling its implementation ...
i mean, why not follow up a more "universal" email authentication ??
how about heuristics ???
obviously not because AOL wouldnt be in control of this ... :P

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By yohimbe9

posted Apr 18, 2006 - 1:50 PM

Wanna know a secret? You also have to pay for MS's solution. MS uses BondedSender to guarantee getting into the inbox which is also a pay service. The rest of their site has some basic rules about handling email, just like AOL, Yahoo and the rest have.

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By PC_Tool

posted Apr 18, 2006 - 12:30 PM

"i dont think AOL is a monopoly either, i just think the "email-fee" was .... "

...makes no sense.

Why shouldn't AOL be allowed to decide how they do or do noth charge for Email over their network?

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