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in July 2002

News of the world

CNIL and SPAM
Cloudmark
IronPort
Europe bans SPAM
SamSpade

French CNIL wants your help against SPAM

The French National Commission of Data Processing and Freedoms (CNIL) is pushing hard against SPAM. They want your help and they need you to send them (automatically or not) samples of the SPAMs you receive. Please, do so at SPAM@cnil.fr.

Cloudmark

This young San Francisco company offers a SPAM detection technology based upon P2P (peer-to-peer) cooperation. Participants (potentially millions of SPAM-fighting people) exchange copies of the SPAM messages through a protocol similar to the one used by Napster. This could mean a real acceleration of fight against SPAM.

http://www.cloudmark.com/

IronPort

IronPort is a product that tries not only to identify SPAM (for filtering like other anti-SPAM software) but also to identify legitimate email senders (to build actual "white lists"). Based upon a payment system ("bonds") it would allow people to validate an address as "non spammers" (and if it proves false, the money would be lost to a third party).

Iron Port would not earn a lot of money out of it, but it may curve the situation by putting a cost to SPAM (like for other junk mail).

Source: Rafe Needleman's Catch of the day.

Europe bans SPAM

A major event for SPAM-fighters like us.

The European Parliament just voted to ban all SPAM. The European Directive - to be fully applicable in about a year - will make illegal all commercial e-mail sent without a prior agreement of the receiver ("opt-in").

This will not stop SPAM, but it will give weapons to spank European spammers. And this is a very good step in the direction of SPAM management.

SamSpade

I recommend this toolset (both the Internet online version and the Windows version) for SPAM hunters. You have everything ready to do serious chasing.