Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

02/11/05

EarthLink is taking action against spam emails

Filed under: New Initiatives, Spam — timwang @ 07:08:08 pm

To follow up with the US waste 21.6 billion dollars each year on spam emails posting, I came across this news today: Earthlink is ready to take actions fighting against spam email. EarthLink is going to sue multiple spam email service providers in US based on the law of federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They are currently collecting evidence on how spam emails causes damages to individual and commercial organizations. EarthLink also announced that they will collaborate with yahoo to develop a new way to filter spam emails using digital signatures...


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Comments:

Comment from: Michelle Lamberson [Visitor] · http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/michelle/
HI Tim,

There's a related article in thenFeb 13 edition of the NY Times, Business Section (you may have to register to read it):

How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp
By By RANDALL STROSS
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/business/yourmoney/13digi.html?ex=1266037200&en=bb29cd3347c2f2bb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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Comment from: timwang [Member] Email · http://blog.loaz.com/timwang
Thanks for the link Michelle. "DomainKeys" seems to be a feasible solution after reading its description page off Yahoo.com:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/business/yourmoney/13digi.html?ex=1266037200&en=bb29cd3347c2f2bb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

I suppose the pressure is on the ISP around the globe. Many of the suggested solutions require global ranged commitment. I assume this is going to take a few years (if not longer) to accomplish.
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