The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance
Posted: 23rd Jun, 2004 By: MarkJ
AOL, BT, Comcast, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo! are among the founding members of a brand-new anti-spam (junk e-mail) alliance known as the 'Anti-Spam Technical Alliance' (ASTA):
The first suggestion is that all providers do their best to remove open relays from their systems. Open relay machines, aka "zombies", are controlled remotely by spammers and used for distributing spam.
It also calls on mailbox providers to do a better job of telling users what they can do to combat spam.
The group is looking at ways to provide secure email identity. It notes that where once spams used false origination addresses (spoofing) to fool spam filters they are now using the same trick to fool users with phishing scams. ASTA is looking at several technologies to secure the domain address of emails.
Unfortunately such an alliance is likely to be of limited use unless they freely help to promote and share any technology or new ideas. Large corporations have a habit of keeping such things to themselves. More @ The Register.
The first suggestion is that all providers do their best to remove open relays from their systems. Open relay machines, aka "zombies", are controlled remotely by spammers and used for distributing spam.
It also calls on mailbox providers to do a better job of telling users what they can do to combat spam.
The group is looking at ways to provide secure email identity. It notes that where once spams used false origination addresses (spoofing) to fool spam filters they are now using the same trick to fool users with phishing scams. ASTA is looking at several technologies to secure the domain address of emails.
Unfortunately such an alliance is likely to be of limited use unless they freely help to promote and share any technology or new ideas. Large corporations have a habit of keeping such things to themselves. More @ The Register.
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