I had to laugh at this article, if Microsoft thinks that they are going to be able to get widespread implementation of this outside of Windows products I think they are smoking crack. Their idea is to force outgoing messages to go thru a puzzle routine that would eat 10-20 seconds via processor time to solve the puzzle before the e-mail is sent. Thus bulk spammers would not be able to send millions of e-mails a day by sheer lack of available CPU cycles.
You may have some of the other mail product vendors implement this into there SMTP servers but that is not going to stop the spammers from using machines that have been hijacked in which they have installed rudimentary SMTP servers on.
I continue to test a server side solution that works and is killing 90% of the spam before it ever gets to our servers hard-drives. If it gets through the first set of test, we kill another 7% with server side filtering. This leaves 3% of the original intended recipient spam actually being downloaded and Microsoft outlook has been 100% successful in filtering the rest. With no lost e-mail. I and my customers no longer have a spam problem how many people can say that! Santronics Software and their WCSAP improvement to Winserver is going to be a huge success. Since Santronics initial press release they have made some major improvements to how the WCSAP process works details to follow. [BBC]
I don’t know they can try and do what they say they want to do but my solution works now. It is an amazing feeling
Sorry Microsoft, your solution’s worse than the problem.
I could just take a hammer to my pc to solve the spam problem too, but why would I?