in the battle against spam, yahoo said this week that it’s making headway in getting sites to adopt its e-mail-authenticating technology.

called domain keys identified mail, the program confirms that an e-mail is not faked, that it’s actually coming from the address it purports to be.

this has been tried before, in a number of different ways by a number of different companies (including microsoft). it hasn’t worked yet.

yahoo is hiring engineers who know how to identify networks of bots and is investing in technology that will allow yahoo servers around the world to respond and adapt automatically to threats, risher said.

yeah, right. since i’d say 99% of spam comes from botnets, this means we can expect that 1) yahoo will stop allowing spam to be sent through its servers and 2) it’ll stop blocking all of us .edu’s as spam, right? ask any mail admin at a .edu how much of a pain in the ass yahoo is to them if you wonder what i’m talking about.

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