Fink on spammers to get better results
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- IT TOPICS:Desktop Applications, Development, Security, Software
As we know all-to-well, mail filtering alone has not licked the spam problem. Hardly. That inescapable fact pushed Garth Bruen to create Knujon LLC in Wilmington, Vt. Knujon (pronounced "new john") is a spam fighting service that, he says, "attacks the transaction" by forcing ISPs and domain registrars to shut down spam sites that are conducting illegal activities. Since 2005 Knujon has shut down more than 50,000 Web sites on behalf of its customers. Knujon users download a plug-in for their Thunderbird mail clients-or you can write Knujon scripts for Outlook and Apple Mail clients-and automatically send the service your spam. Knujon software examines each message and gives it a score. A bad score and the service starts proceedings against the spammer. Bruen says it takes about six months to get results. But the service continuously updates users about where Knujon is in the spammer-shutdown process. He says feedback is crucial, noting that citizen complaints to government agencies, such as the Federal Communications Commission, are often unresponsive with consumers. Most interesting, Bruen claims his analysis leads him to conclude that the virtually all of the world's spam comes from about 50 sources. While he's not so optimistic that spammers will ever be ultimately defeated, he does think services like Knujon can make it harder for them to make a living. You can subscribe to Knujon for $27 per year.
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