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FTC Offers Guidelines to Reduce SPAM

If you run any servers, even at home, you should probably read this and/or forward it on to anybody you know who manages servers.  As anybody with a clue can attest, SPAM is quickly clogging up not just our individual inboxes, but also the networks that make the Internet work.  Most of these messages are being sent by unsuspecting individuals' computers, not from the spammers' own machines.  Do your part to stop spam by protecting your servers.

FTC - SPAM - Securing Your Email Servers

 

Posted: Jul 28 2003, 07:04 PM by ASPSmith | with 1 comment(s)

Comments

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Basically they say just prevent yourself from becoming an open relay. I think this already is implemented in most places since many companies (including Microsoft) actually block open relay email servers from sending email. Once you are recognized as an *open relay*, your server address goes into a list called a black list. Then, many companies subscribe to these lists to prevent spam in their company.

Good pointer Steve!
# August 11, 2003 9:58 AM
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