Anti-Spam - The Chinese could pull it off
Business Today, a magazine in India quoted a market research group that the cost of spam - installing software, scanning mail, the time to delete it)l rise to US$US$20.5 billion in 2007.
Everybody is complaining about it, companies install more and more software to prevent spam from entering their server, and that countries don't do enough.
Don't say?
China pounces ahead and it was said that the government gave senders of unsolicited mail an ultimatum to clean up their act or face digital exile.
According to the Chinese News Agency Xinhua, mainland authorities have identified and blacklisted 656 spam servers worldwide with 65 being in Taiwan, 6 in Hong Kong and 63 in Mainland China itself. And this is not the first time - it happened already in 2003 - and shows that a country can take steps to stop spam.
Okay - China earlier blocked sides like Google, and is is concerned about anti-government propaganda and controls the Internet with a tight fist. But may be, sometimes, this is the way to pounce the bad guys?
(By Asia Business Consulting)
Everybody is complaining about it, companies install more and more software to prevent spam from entering their server, and that countries don't do enough.
Don't say?
China pounces ahead and it was said that the government gave senders of unsolicited mail an ultimatum to clean up their act or face digital exile.
According to the Chinese News Agency Xinhua, mainland authorities have identified and blacklisted 656 spam servers worldwide with 65 being in Taiwan, 6 in Hong Kong and 63 in Mainland China itself. And this is not the first time - it happened already in 2003 - and shows that a country can take steps to stop spam.
Okay - China earlier blocked sides like Google, and is is concerned about anti-government propaganda and controls the Internet with a tight fist. But may be, sometimes, this is the way to pounce the bad guys?
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 11:49 am
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