Microsoft calls for outbound filtering against spam
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
In its continuing fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Microsoft plans to filter outgoing messages on its consumer mail services and is busy developing new "proofing" technologies, the software maker's chief spam fighter said Thursday. The fight is also one against the clock. Microsoft last year set a two-year goal to make spam a problem of the past. There are 19 months left, Ryan Hamlin, general manager of Microsoft's Security Technology & Strategy group, said Thursday at Inbox, a conference on e-mail here.