eBay, Paypal and Yahoo!
Yahoo users can feel a little bit more secure when receiving email from eBay and Paypal after Thursday's Yahoo! yodel: Say goodbye to eBay and PayPal fraudsters.
"We’ve teamed up with eBay and PayPal to become the first Web mail service to block the delivery of unauthenticated eBay and PayPal emails, reducing your risks of receiving phishing scams or fraudulent emails. Our weaponThis is the first major announcement of this kind, be prepared for more to follow by authenticating your mail now. Not just your commercial or transactional email but also your Corporate email.
is a technology Yahoo! spearheaded called DomainKeys, which uses cryptography to verify the domain of the sender."
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CAUCE Canada's letter of support for the MAAWG Senders' BCP
In reply to a request for support coming from the co-chairs of the Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group's Senders Subcommittee for their draft Best Practices document, CAUCE Canada issued the following statement:
To whom it may concern,
Having reviewed the document at http://www.maawg.org/about/MAAWG_Senders_BCP, our comments are as follows:
We feel this additional point under Section 1 b) would be appropriate;
iii. Additional consideration must be reviewed for the secondary use of personally identifiable information, when considering contact outside of the original scope of consent provided by the email user,
while remaining in line with item 1 a) for each level of consent.
Additionally, we would be interested in co-sponsoring the document, pending final review of the edits made during the public consultation process.
Congratulations on an excellent piece of work.
Yours truly,
Neil Schwartzman
Chair, Board of Directors
CAUCE Canada: The Canadian Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
To whom it may concern,
Having reviewed the document at http://www.maawg.org/about/MAAWG_Senders_BCP, our comments are as follows:
We feel this additional point under Section 1 b) would be appropriate;
iii. Additional consideration must be reviewed for the secondary use of personally identifiable information, when considering contact outside of the original scope of consent provided by the email user,
while remaining in line with item 1 a) for each level of consent.
Additionally, we would be interested in co-sponsoring the document, pending final review of the edits made during the public consultation process.
Congratulations on an excellent piece of work.
Yours truly,
Neil Schwartzman
Chair, Board of Directors
CAUCE Canada: The Canadian Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
