Microsoft's MSN has admitted that its email services have been blocking incoming mails from rival ISPs earlier this week, after their networks were banned as sources of junk mail. Beyond that, MSN's spam-abuse team compiles its own list of IP...
However, a tax levied at a rate of only a dollar, euro or pound per thousand mails could seriously discommode those behind spam. There are very few email users that do not receive unsolicited messages.
s introduction of the system follows recent moves by internet service providers AOL and Microsoft's MSN to elevate their efforts against spammers and to advertise their anti-spam campaigns as a competitive advantage.
The group is emerging at a time when spam has reached crushing proportions; more than half of all email sent is unsolicited bulk messages. OpenWave is in talks with Micosoft, Yahoo! One objective of the telecom group is to agree on a standard for...
For example, he said, the banking industry has already held talks about building a secure email system for customers. In recent weeks, the online auctioneer introduced My Messages, a free, personalised in-box for eBay customers that contains...
If unsolicited voice communications (or recorded messages) become a problem in their volume and potentially illicit enticements, content filters will be of little use as they will not be able to break the encryption.