Spam

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail specification (DKIM) to fight spam and phishing. The challenge now is to get the specification adopted now that it has finally been agreed upon.
Sendmail Sentrion mail appliances and their switches and the Open Source Sendmail server all support it. Yahoo!’s Web [...]

Gordon Dick of Edinburgh, Scotland sued spammer Transcom Internet Services Ltd. in small claims court and won a judgment of 750 pounds (euro1,100, US$1,445) in damages and 619 pounds (euro906, US$1,190) in court costs. ”Some people just delete and ignore it,” Dick told The Associated Press. ”But if someone was throwing stones through your [...]