Some companies sick of spam email have actually done more harm than good when implementing anti-spam filters - as genuine business gets thrown out with the natural Viagra and low interest loan junk mail, and employees spend precious time chasing...
The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) formed a subcommittee earlier this month to hammer out differences between a number of competing protocols that all aim to do the same thing: verify that email senders...
More troubling is what this means for the individuals who submit complaints to SpamCop with the expectation that SpamCop will not reveal their email addresses to the people they are accusing of spamming," said Anne Mitchell, CEO of the think tank...
An ongoing effort to consolidate anti-spam authentication schemes took a big step forward with the merging of Sender Policy Framework and Microsoft's Caller ID for Email. Microsoft called the merged specification an important boost for the...
An internet standards group approved two "experimental" anti-spam proposals, sidestepping a controversy dividing Microsoft and its email competitors. Other anti-spam authentication technologies in use include Yahoo!
Most businesses are unhappy with the performance of their anti-spam technologies, a survey has found. The survey, entitled The Spam Index Report, found that most customers were not fully satisfied with the service they received from anti-spam vendors.