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ISO Says No To Microsoft's OOXML Standard 315

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @11:12AM from the try-again-later dept.

qcomp writes "The votes are in and Microsoft has lost for now, reports the FFII's campaign website OOXML. The 2/3 majority needed to proceed with the fast-track standardization has not been achieved. Now the standard will head to the ballot resolution meeting to address the hundreds of technical comments submitted along with the votes." Here is yesterday's speculation as to how the vote would turn out.

Submission + - Bad Spam Filters Flood Innocent Inboxes

Submitted by

richi

on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @03:12PM

richi writes: "Do challenge/response spam filtering systems create more problems than they solve? One analyst argues against them.

Two weeks ago, Ferris Research email security analyst Richi Jennings awoke to find his e-mail inbox filling with spam at a rate of about a message per second. Over the course of two days, a spammer using a bot net — a collection of PCs that have been subverted through security exploits to send spam — sent an estimated 10 million messages that purported to come from several of Jennings's e-mail addresses.

That resulted in more than 25,000 bounce messages, from ISPs that return spam to the supposed sender (rather than deleting it) and from challenge/response filters that reply to spam with a note asking the listed sender to answer a challenge question before the initial message gets delivered. "Challenge/response filters have more Achilles' heels than they have feet," he says."

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