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LINX Backs Government - Anti-SPAM

Posted: 11th Mar, 2005 By: MarkJ
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has revealed that it is now a member of the government's London Action Plan (LAP) network, which is a group aimed at enforcing anti-SPAM laws both inside and outside of the UK:

LAP this week announced the results of its first-ever global spam-trapping exercise which was undertaken last month in association with ICPEN (the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network).

Agencies analysed and categorised a sample of 138,904 spam emails from trap accounts and existing agency accounts as well as spam blocked by filters. The results produced a snapshot of categories of spam emails at the time of the exercise. The most reported categories were spam promoting software and computer equipment, adult pharmaceutical products, adult content, financial services and body enhancing products.

At this stage agencies have flagged a total of 3,241 emails for further investigation with regard to possible breaches of the law in various countries.

LINX is providing the LAP campaign with technical advice and assistance and will be hosting a secure website on which LAP member agencies can exchange information.

Malcolm Hutty, LINX regulation officer, said: "LINX and its ISP members actively combat spam by seeking to prevent this material getting onto networks - and have been doing so since the problem first materialised with the early commercialisation of the Internet.

"LINX members have strict provisions in their terms of service prohibiting their customers from sending spam and they act extremely promptly to restrain any customer abusing their networks for the origination of spam. Because they operate this simple, strict prohibition there is relatively little spam originating in the UK.

"Spam costs ISPs a considerable amount of money because they have to provide the capacity to carry all this e-mail traffic which the recipients simply do not want. There are also substantial costs for ISPs in handling enquiries about spam and spam prevention.

"We are therefore keen to assist overseas law enforcement agencies and other organisations to take effective action against the originators of spam.

"We hope the agencies involved in this exercise will use the results to develop strategies, in conjunction with overseas and domestic partners in the public and private sectors, to combat spammers and reduce harm to consumers and legitimate e-commerce.
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