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Cisco on verge of anti-spam router breakthrough?

Come on, the Cisco Kids!
Sun Jul 25 2004, 19:52
SOURCES CLAIM a top team of engineers at networking giant Cisco is on the verge of readying software which will help eliminate the undoubted menace of spam.

If these reports turn out to be correct the routing software could turn email back into a viable option, at least for Cisco hardware. At first.

While there's no comment from Cisco on product plans, what we do know is that Michael Thomas, a Cisco employee, and Jim Fenton have co-authored "draft-fenton-indentified-mail-00". That's available on the IETF draft repository, which you can find here.

This is an interesting draft which rather than being anti-viral is connected with spam-phishing attacks.

We understand that at the forthcoming IEFT (MASS), it's likely there will be a working group formed in a bid to standardise this technology.

Go Cisco, go! µ

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