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The ISIPP Accreditation Database (IADB), like similar reputation services, is aimed at helping e-mail receivers make decisions about e-mail legitimacy so they can appropriately block messages, as well as deliver desired opt-in e-mail. The database is a list of sender domains, or IP addresses, tied to a variety of other sender data. Most notably, it will include whether they participate in authentication schemes like SPF, Microsoft's "Caller ID for E-Mail," or whether they're enrolled in authentication programs like Habeas or IronPort's Bonded Sender.
Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all. The 45-year-old grandfather opens most of them. He answers spam questionnaires. And he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail – again and again.
News also surfaced that broadband provider Comcast has been cutting off Internet service for some customers whose computers are being used to relay spam messages.
Took 'em long enough to get around to this!
Who'd have thought the tortuously named CAN-SPAM law (for "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing"), which went live in January, would be more than wishful thinking for dealing with spam?
Duh! Anybody who knows anything about how spam works knew long before CAN-SPAM passed that it was pretty much a worthless piece of legislation.
Spamhaus believes it can use its proposed suffix – .mail – to fight spam. The idea is to create a domain guaranteed to be spam free, explained Spamhaus volunteer John Reid.
"It allows places that don't spam to use this TLD and the system behind it to send mail that will be vouched for by Spamhaus and the group behind it to be spam free. If you're doing legitimate mailing, your mail should be allowed to go through."
Internet service providers will be able to deliver .mail messages with confidence that they're not spam, he asserted. "And if ever there is spam coming from a dot-mail address, within a few hours there won't be anymore, because it will be locked down," he said.
Despite the negative publicity and public condemnation of spam, the actions of one-third of Canadian on-line consumers are sufficient to provide spammers with the incentive to continue.
Betterly no longer sends bulk e-mail to anyone with a Yahoo address. Yahoo and a few other ISPs filter too well, she says, so she doesn't get much response.
The second best thing about having server issues is that the steady flow of spam has slowly trickled down to almost nothing.
PALO ALTO, CA - An email from Marison Octrup containing word of her husband's death was deleted by Eric Rawson's spam filter Monday, a review of the deleted-items folder would have indicated. "Dear extended Octrup family, it is with great sadness that I write to you to report the end of George's battle with emphysema. George died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday night," read the e-mail, which Rawson never received. "The funeral will be held at St. Francis' First Lutheran Church on Thursday, for those who might be able to attend." While the death notice did not reach Rawson, 14 offers for low-cost Cialis did.
