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Internet portal Yahoo! Inc on Tuesday released an e-mail standard that prevents spam marketers from hiding unwanted messages behind legitimate e-mail addresses, The Star Online reports.
The technique, if widely adopted, could help Internet providers more easily block the unwanted bulk messages that currently account for up to two-thirds of all e-mail traffic.
Yahoo!'s proposed standard, known as DomainKeys, would be invisible to regular e-mail users because it would be implemented by e-mail providers.
Internet providers deploy a barrage of filters to weed out spam and large providers like America Online block up to 2.5 billion spam e-mail messages each day.
The technique, if widely adopted, could help Internet providers more easily block the unwanted bulk messages that currently account for up to two-thirds of all e-mail traffic.
Yahoo!'s proposed standard, known as DomainKeys, would be invisible to regular e-mail users because it would be implemented by e-mail providers.
Internet providers deploy a barrage of filters to weed out spam and large providers like America Online block up to 2.5 billion spam e-mail messages each day.