SpamAnti.net in October 2006

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Hormel Foods against Europe

Hormel Foods, the original manufacturer of this caned meat that gave its name to SPAM (see the encyclopédie) was trying to abtain from the European Office of Trade Marks and Designs that the word SPAM be prohibited from use in commercial products fighting against unsollicited email.

The Office denied this request - interestingly - basing its decision partly on a search on Google prooving that the vast majority of Internet users expect - under the SPAM name - not canned meat but information about email.

Source: International Business Times and AP

Spam fighters are losing ground

This is the bold statement of InfoWorld after observing the recent surge in the sheer volume of SPAM in the email (They assert that 90% of email traffic is SPAM - This is an unsubstantiated statement but it seems very credible indeed).

Despite the eye-catching title, they give a neat view of the current situation of email bombarded by SPAM.

Source: InfoWorld

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The black list will stop soon

I intend to stop publishing the black list of spamming domains. I now consider that its usefulness dropped too low to be compared to statistical tools like K9 or POPfile (that you can find in my download page).

If you want to contact me about this issue (whether you want to convince me to keep it online or you'd like to provide some related information I missed), please, send me message.

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