Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Solutions for spam

The spam situation is bad and only getting worse. A judge recently cited insufficient evidence and dismissed a North Carolina woman's felony spamming conviction, according to the Washington Post. CAN-SPAM, Bayesian filters, blacklists and whitelists--none have done much to stem spam traffic. Experts are calling on enterprises to support their proposed <A HREF="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1064501,00.html">standards for email sender authentication,</A> which will underscore new, so-called reputation services that rate messages against thousands of criteria. The idea is to identify trusted elements and turn away spammers at the gateway by treating all as "guilty until proven innocent."

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