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'Key' may be the key to beating junk e-mail

Feb 11, 2004 12:45AM PST

Spam-fighting experts have long advised having multiple e-mail accounts: one for personal correspondence and at least one for activities like online shopping that can be abandoned when junk e-mail starts piling up.

But, the New York Times reports, this is likely to become unnecessary with ZoEmail, a new Web-based e-mail service that incorporates patented technology from AT&T Labs to block unsolicited mail from your inbox.

The user compiles a special ZoEmail address book in which each correspondent is assigned a unique "key" consisting of a customizable series of words or numbers.

For example, instead of an address that looks like homer@simpson.com, a keyed address would look something like homer.snackfood@simpson.com.

Messages with the special keyed addresses are allowed into your inbox; mail without the address keys is blocked.

Read more at http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=57&u_sid=1001544

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