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[FYI] NYT: Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam



Wenn schon Spamwochen sind, sollte auch der Artikel aus der NYT
von letzter Woche nicht fehlen:

--snip--  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/technology/22SPAM.html


April 22, 2003
Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam
By SAUL HANSELL

Alyx Sachs is no longer sending people e-mail offering to "fix your
credit risk free."

Confronted by an increasing number of individuals, businesses and
Internet service providers using software meant to identify and
discard unwanted junk e-mail — commonly known as spam — Ms. Sachs has
been forced to become more creative in her marketing pitches. The
subject line on her credit e-mail, for example, now reads "get a fresh
start."

>From a small office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, millions of
messages prepared on behalf of others by Ms. Sachs and her partner are
still going out to e-mail in-boxes every day, promising not just to
restore a poor credit rating but also to sell printer ink, 3-D glasses
and, lately, even playing cards with pictures of wanted Iraqi leaders.

In the cat-and-mouse game of e-mail marketers and those trying to stop
them, the spammers are still winning.

So far, nothing that has been tried to block spam has done much more
than inconvenience mass e-mailers. Just as Ms. Sachs's company,
NetGlobalMarketing, has been able to reword its e-mail to evade spam
filters, others use even more aggressive tricks to disguise the
content of their messages and to send them via circuitous paths so
their true origin cannot be determined.

"There is no silver bullet," said Lisa Pollock, the senior director of
messaging at Yahoo, the popular Web portal. "There will always be
people who can find a way to get around whatever you have in place."

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MfG
 Olaf


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