The Global Spam Fight

23 Oct 2003

A number of welcome items in the news in this week regarding Spam.

Yahoo introduced a feature where users can create unique email addresses that can be disabled later on. Hot on the heels of this announcement Hotmail has announced plans to introduce a White List for users.

On a larger scale the US Senate has passed a bill that promises to get tough on spam, the bill is a good start but The Reg mentions some concerns with this bill.

On my own little system I have introduced a black list that blocks mail at SMTP time to blacklisted recipients this has kept about 2000 spam messages from entering my box this month, a very welcome change. This was made easy by my reporting module for iScan that puts detailed meta information about all mail handled by my machine into a SQL server, using this I can track down big spam recipients and trends and target those with specific fixes or safe guards.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 9:49 PM

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