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- http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?artic…bleArticle=true
Mar. 23, 2005
"IBM on Tuesday unveiled a technology that sends unwanted e-mails back to the spammers who sent them.
The technology, known as Fair Use of Unsolicited Commercial Email (or FairUCE), establishes a "return to sender" policy for messages that come from a database of computers sending spam. It is available for solution providers to download for free through the vendor's alphaWorks emerging technology program. Marc Goubert, manager of alphaWorks at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, said the technology presents a new option for messaging security as the number of spam messages continues to increase exponentially. In February, 76 percent of all e-mail was spam, according to a recent IBM Global Business Security Index report…The FairUCE approach verifies the IP address of a message sender and matches it against a list of blacklisted domain names, Goubert said. If the message comes from a blacklisted address, the technology returns it to the sender. And if the message comes from an address deemed as "safe," it's allowed to pass…"
- http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
- http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?artic…bleArticle=true
Mar. 23, 2005
"IBM on Tuesday unveiled a technology that sends unwanted e-mails back to the spammers who sent them.
The technology, known as Fair Use of Unsolicited Commercial Email (or FairUCE), establishes a "return to sender" policy for messages that come from a database of computers sending spam. It is available for solution providers to download for free through the vendor's alphaWorks emerging technology program. Marc Goubert, manager of alphaWorks at Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, said the technology presents a new option for messaging security as the number of spam messages continues to increase exponentially. In February, 76 percent of all e-mail was spam, according to a recent IBM Global Business Security Index report…The FairUCE approach verifies the IP address of a message sender and matches it against a list of blacklisted domain names, Goubert said. If the message comes from a blacklisted address, the technology returns it to the sender. And if the message comes from an address deemed as "safe," it's allowed to pass…"
- http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce
