Saturday, April 1, 2006

Antispam confab looks beyond filters

<A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6055171.html?tag=zdnn.alert">The fight against spam, phishing and email fraud</A> should focus on economic incentives and aiding law enforcement, according to attendees at a conference examining the problem. Speakers at MIT's 2006 Spam Conference were notably cognizant of the recent proposals of white lists and AOL's Goodmail, a pay per email service offering preferential treatment in email delivery for marketers. It is also one year since the implementation of Can-Spam, the federal law that sets email marketing standards and makes it less complicated for law enforcement to go after John Doe spammers.

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