CSC 379:Week 1, Group 4: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:19, 6 July 2007

block domains or even top-level domains "known" to be large senders of spam
- Spamhaus Block List
  - see faq also
require users to request permission to send you e-mail (eg Earthlink spam blocker)
Charge for e-mail sent
- see article
- PDF paper on charging for email
opt-in for commercial email
domain authentication
- what canada has to say about it
- seemingly useful article with links to domain authentication related concepts
bounties
- MSNBC article
- another article about same event
the "goodmail" approach
- goodmail article
- goodmail web page
bond with escrow agencies
- microsoft using following service
- service for escrow
client-side filtering

Technique Name	Pros	Cons	Our Rating
Block domains of "known" spammers	Gets rid of a large amount of spam Low chance of blocking legitimate email (sbl-faq) Mechanism to allow legitimate sources to know they were blocked (sbl-faq)	things	5 stars!

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 **[http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39124098,00.htm another article about same event]
 *the "goodmail" approach
+**[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2006-03-05-goodmail_x.htm goodmail article]
+**[http://www.goodmailsystems.com/ goodmail web page]
 *bond with escrow agencies
 **[http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/05/1237245 microsoft using following service]
 **[http://www.senderscorecertified.com/ service for escrow]
+*client-side filtering
 [http://www.spamlaws.com/articles/usf.pdf huge paper on this subject]