Web giants wage war on spam

[bobbi]

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Three of the most prominent U.S. technology companies: America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc., plan to work together to develop ways to block unsolicited commercial e-mail known as spam, the companies said Monday.

The companies, in a joint statement, said they would bring aboard other companies to develop industry guidelines and new technical standards to block the e-mails, which have drawn heated criticism from Internet users.

They said they hope to "significantly reduce the ability of spammers to use AOL's, Microsoft's and Yahoo!'s e-mail services to send spam."

The companies will also step up enforcement efforts, with plans calling for the group to work with legal authorities to crack down on spam senders that rely on fraudulent means of transmission to get past filters.

 

[deadserious]

It's about time! LOL, but do you think there will ever be a solution for it?

I really don't think it's possible, unless, maybe, they had a police force for the internet for each city in each state just like they do for regular crime. Eh that probably wouldn't work either lol

 

[bobbi]

it's highly doubtful that there will be a resolution for the spamming problem anytime soon.

 

[Leech]

spam problem will enver syop even with several improvement like get mails only gtom adresses thta you have....but if someone changes the adress then his mail is spam...so it is impossible.

 

[Alberrisford]

I hope something good comes out of this, as it as a huge pain

 

[adam_uk]

good! ive had enough of spam