AOL Won't Use Microsoft Anti-Spam Standard (old news - 03:45PM Friday Sep 17 2004)
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America Online Inc. on Thursday shunned a Microsoft Corp. proposal to help weed out unwanted "spam" e-mail because Internet engineers are reluctant to adopt technology owned by the dominant software company. AOL, a division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - news), said it would not adopt Microsoft's SenderID protocol because it has failed to win over experts leery of Microsoft's business practices.
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