AU Net industry organises anti-spam drive

By Stephen Withers
16 April 2003 05:20 PM
Tags: e-mail, spam, withers, junk mail, email, coroneo, iia, australia
Following calls by the National Office for the Information Economy for Internet Service Providers to make spam-filtering tools affordable, the Internet Industry Association (IIA) has stepped forward with free trials of various anti-spam products next month.

Participating vendors and providers include Bluebottle Solutions, Hotmail, MessageCare, MessageLabs, Network Associates, OzHosting.com, SurfControl, Symantec Australia, Telnet Media, Trend Micro, and Yahoo Australia and NZ Mail.

These products and services -put control back into the hands of end-uses so they don't have to be unwilling recipients," said IIA chief executive Peter Coroneos. -Spam runs the full range from nuisance to nauseating."

-This is definitely an offer to every Australian, regardless of their station," he said, explaining that the various suppliers addressed different markets from individuals to corporations.

We're trying to protect the medium from opportunistic attacks on e-mail systems, Coroneos said. -It has got to be stopped before people decide to just disconnect."

Although Senator Richard Alston, the minister of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, promised legislative action to control spam -as quickly as possible," only a small fraction of it--16 percent according to him; 2.7 percent on Coroneos' figures--originates within Australia. Most spam-plagued users are therefore likely to need some sort of filtering to keep their in-boxes clear of junk mail.

Meanwhile, the NOIE has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released today.

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