China steps up fight against spammers


Blacklist aims to reduce massive spamming levels.

Chinese web organisation the Internet Society of China (ISC) has announced the setting up of a central anti-spam blacklist, to allow service providers and filtering software to block known senders of spam.

The list already contains 100,000 known-bad IP addresses, mostly gathered via reports from members of the public, while a corresponding whitelist supports legitimate mail servers and ISPs.

A hard core of 906 major sources of spam has been made public, with their owners given a month to take action to reduce the flood of junk mail coming from their machines.

More details can be found at official Chinese news agency

Xinhua

,

here

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Posted on 19 June 2007 by

Virus Bulletin


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