* A look at what some ISPs are doing to ratchet up their anti-spam efforts
Can anything stop spam? Well, your local ISP can help. Our Special Focus article this week notes that anti-spam services range from server filters that ISPs use to capture spam intended for their customers, to managed services that those providing e-mail hosting have added to their list of offerings, our author Cara Garretson (Cgarretson@nww.com) says.
Can anything stop spam? Well, your local ISP can help.Cgarretson@nww.com) says.
Our Special Focus article this week notes that anti-spam services range from server filters that ISPs use to capture spam intended for their customers, to managed services that those providing e-mail hosting have added to their list of offerings, our author Cara Garretson (
EarthLink recently began offering SpamBlocker, a free, homegrown service, in addition to Brightmail’s anti-virus software for ISPs, which runs on its servers as an extra layer of protection. Brightmail captures 70% to 80 % of the spam coming into EarthLink’s network.
While EarthLink’s customers are primarily consumers, companies are looking to ISPs to take spam detection off their hands. Companies offering e-mail hosting services, such as Sprint and Cable & Wireless, in the past year have added anti-spam filters to block unwanted e-mail before it reaches their customers’ networks.
But while ISPs have the right to filter all spam coming into their networks bound for their customers, as long as they state so in their terms and conditions, few are prepared to take on the role of judging what their customers deem spam, and what is wanted e-mail.
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