Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment
- Apr 15, 2005 12:15 PM (AP Online)
By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new strategy in the spam battle: Call it
containment. Filters for blocking junk e-mail from inboxes have
improved to the point that doing much more will needlessly kill
legitimate e-mail, said Carl Hutzler, America Online Inc.'s anti-spam
coordinator. So e-mail gatekeepers are shifting gears.
Now they're getting more aggressive at keeping spam from leaving
their systems in the first place.
EarthLink Inc., for instance, is phasing in a requirement that
customers' mail programs submit passwords before it will send out
their e-mail.
Like most Internet providers, EarthLink previously made sure only
that a computer was associated with a legitimate account. Now that
viruses can co-opt computers and use them to send spam, that's no
longer secure enough.
So Earthlink sent out new software, made automated tools available
for download and walked customers through manually changing their
mail settings when they called tech support for other reasons. A year
into the initiative, EarthLink has 80 percent of its customers
converted.
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- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=48398343
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