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ADVISORY/Join ActiveState's Anti-Spam Task Force for a Webcast Guaranteed to Expose Spammers' Tricks.


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ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week.  (Aug. 26)

VANCOUVER Vancouver, city, Canada
Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border.
, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2003


What:       Join ActiveState for a webcast entitled, "ActiveState's
            Field Guide to Spam: Exposing Spammers' Tricks." This
            free, 60-minute presentation will reveal the most
            popular, complex, and dastardly techniques employed by
            spammers today.

Presenter:  Dr. John Graham-Cumming
            Dr. Graham-Cumming is a Research Director on
            ActiveState's Anti-spam Task Force, with responsibility
            for applying innovative email classification and learning
            techniques to ActiveState's enterprise email filtering
            software, PureMessage.

            In 2002 he created POPFile, the popular open source email
            classification and anti-spam software, which InternetWeek
            described as having "the truly revolutionary feel of the
            first web browsers and instant message clients."

            John holds a BA and MA in Mathematics and Computation and
            a Doctorate in Computer Security from Oxford University.
            He has published several papers in the mathematical
            foundation of secure computer systems.

Date:            Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Time:            10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT
Registration:    Register Online
                 www.ActiveState.com/webcast/fieldguide

Teleconference:  North America: 800.492.7568
                 International: +1 212.676.4903
Contact:         If you need additional information or have any
                 questions, please contact Katey Stewart, The Horn
                 Group, kstewart@horngroup.com, (415) 905-4019.



About ActiveState ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services.  Corp.

ActiveState enables IT professionals and enterprises to increase productivity and organizational efficiency. The Company's PureMessage Sophos PureMessage is an anti-spam program by Sophos plc, which is aimed primarily at corporate environments.  product empowers organizations to take control of their email communications to protect against spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it).  and viruses, and to enforce email policy. Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength anti-spam Spam elimination. See spam filter, spambot and e-mail obfuscator.  software for enterprises and professional tools for programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists

 is available at: www.ActiveState.com.

ActiveState and PureMessage are trademarks of ActiveState Corp. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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