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Have you ever experienced a difficult problem that seemed unsolvable — until you realized at the last moment that a simple solution was staring you right in the face?
Something like that is happening in the battle to eradicate spam.
Two major proposals to identify and screen out the senders of unsolicited bulk e-mail are from Microsoft, with its "Sender ID," and Yahoo.com, which is promoting "Domain Keys." But, as I reported in this space on Sept. 28, Sender ID was dealt a crushing blow when it was rejected by both America Online, the largest Internet service provider in the U.S., and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), a key standards body.