| Fighting spam During my search for information on fighting spam, I ran across this proposal from the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance:
»docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/pdf/asta_soi.pdf
Although it was dated 2004, it is interesting to note that Telus has implemented most of it's recommendations. It recommends a multi-pronged approach, putting most of the onus on ISPs to control email content originating from their own networks. It has been effective, to the point that most spam now originates from Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America, where ISPs obviously don't control their own networks. |
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| Some countries are pretty much free-for-all when it comes to spam and illegal online activities.
So much so in fact that when I used to run a forum, I completely blocked all IPs belonging to Russia and China ISPs. That alone cut down more than 50% of the spam registrations. |
| reply to couttsj
Well there is another anti-spam effort announced a few days ago:
»dmarc.org/
DMARC, short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance builds on existing technologies SPF & DKIM. What makes this one different is the on-board players:
* Email Providers: AOL, Comcast, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail
* Financial Institutions and Service Providers: Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, PayPal
* Social Media Properties: American Greetings, Facebook, LinkedIn
* Email Security Solutions Providers: Agari, Cloudmark, eCert, Return Path, Trusted Domain Project |
