SIEVE: A mail filtering language
Probably not powerful or flexible enough, in my judgment.
Archive for the ‘spam’ Category.
AOL/Yahoo/Microsoft antispam techniques
InternetRetailer.com – Daily News for Monday, April 28, 2003
Hamlin says the Microsoft/AOL/Yahoo effort will concentrate on two basic goals: reducing the ability of spammers to spoof e-mail recipients with misleading “from” and “subject” headings, and establishing a set of anti-spam policies implemented throughout the e-mail world by both senders and recipients. A central part of this effort will be to leverage existing directories of Internet Protocol addresses, such as the Domain Name System, to verify the actual IP addresses of outbound e-mail. “You can`t spoof an IP address,” he says.
He adds that Microsoft and other participants will publish guidelines on how to configure inbound e-mail systems to work more closely with IP address registries. “It `s a minor effort for individual companies,” he says. “A single IT-person shop can do it.”
Among the other techniques the three companies will work on:
- Inhibit the delivery of e-mail from network systems determined to be operating with open routers or other technology that leaves a system open to use by unauthorized senders of e-mail;
- Eliminate the ability to create fraudulent e-mail accounts in bulk;
- Define a mechanism that would allow consumers to communicate with e-mail service providers regarding spam complaints;
- Develop better mechanisms for preserving electronic evidence of spamming activity to support enforcement actions;
- Help coordinate industry-wide use of best practices in blocking spam.
Spam: there’s no standard way to get permission
David Berlind: Networking Updgrades / Slam, bam, no thank you, spam – Tech Update – ZDNet:
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Perhaps the biggest problem is that there’s no standard way for getting permission. Most e-mail senders believe that if a closed permission loop exists, e-mail they send should get a hall pass. In a closed loop, if you try to sign me up for a newsletter, I will be given the opportunity to confirm that via e-mail. Presumably, I’m the only one with access to my inbox and, if I accept the confirmation, the newsletter will begin to flow to me on a periodic basis. If I don’t confirm it, I receive nothing.
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Network Advertising Initiative’s E-mail Service Provider Coalition announces spam blueprint
E-mail Coalition Floats Plan to Stop Spam
‘The E-mail Service Provider Coalition of the Network Advertising Initiative plans to announce a blueprint for an Internet-wide technological solution to spam this week.
“We need to level the playing field and get one uniform standard,” said Trevor Hughes, executive director of NAI. The Coalition members include e-mail service providers such as ClickAction, Yesmail, Mindshare Design, Cheetahmail and Digital Impact.
The NAI plan would change the e-mail architecture to keep spammers out and allow legitimate e-mail to pass through. E-mail senders would undergo a certification process under which each would have to meet a number of qualifications. E-mail service providers would register their clients.’
“Help me like IM again” (spam destroys another medium)
O’Reilly Network: Help me like Instant Messaging again. [April 12, 2003]
“Help me like instant messaging (IM) again. I was an early adopter, but got burned.
Back when ICQ was still new I had adopted using it. It was fabulous and my friends & I had taken to using it instead of email. For each other anyway. Something bad happened though. Spam. By the bucketload. There were days when I’d here “Oh-uh!” twenty times a day with nothing but invitations to chat with someone cute and lonely. Right.
Despite clicking every checkbox in the preferences the spam didn’t stop. My friends & I eventually had to opt for using it less and less until we just couldn’t bother with it any longer. At least we had some spam prevention with out email clients or ISPs.”
Habeas sues haiku abusers
The Register:Habeas sues haiku abusers
“The first suit, against Avalend and Intermark Media, alleges infringement of the Habeas trademark in attempts to get junk mail delivered. The second lawsuit, against Dale Heller, Stan Stuchinski (BigDogSecrets.com), Clickbank and Keynetics, covers a breach of contract claim against Heller, a Habeas licensee.”
Yet Another Whitelist Anti-spam Company… With PR Contacts
Techdirt: Yet Another Whitelist Anti-spam Company… With PR Contacts (regarding Mailblocks, a largely challenge/response email MUA).
IBM Watson researchers on sender-pays solution to spam
Information Week: Techdirt]
See also:
Scott Fahlman: Spam and Telemarketing
and his IBM paper (PDF)
Slashdot: IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution
United States Patent: 5,999,967
