ADVISORY/Waging War on Spam.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 TOPIC: To combat the glut of unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, anti-spam activists are waging war on several fronts, Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. reported. Spammers reportedly range from amateurs looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. quick money to "professionals" who make money by offering mass e-mail advertisement services to unsuspecting nascent Net companies. Sophisticated services reportedly are available to locate spammers, who often falsify falsify, v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record. their e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address or IP information. Some anti-spam activists are calling for a secure, authenticated e-mail infrastructure, which assigns a unique ID to license each e-mail user. Content-based filtering systems used by some e-mail providers allegedly are less ideal, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. anti-spam experts, because they may block large categories of innocent e-mail, including solicited bulk mail lists. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Ian Oxman, president of ChooseYourMail.com, is president of a leading "opt-in" anti-spam e-mail marketing Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. company and is founder of the Spam Recycling Center, a consumer assistance web site devoted to helping consumers fight spam. He works directly with federal and state government officials to facilitate responsible anti-spam legislation. 312-456-3351 Ian.Oxman@chooseyourmail.com PR: Anthony Phipps (anthony.phipps@chooseyourmail.com) Alan Schwartz Alan Schwartz is the President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. He assumed that position on June 25, 2001. Schwartz has worked at Bear Stearns since 1976, and is a 1972 graduate of Duke University. is the author of "Stopping Spam," which provides e-mail users, sys admins, and ISPs with suggestions on how to reduce the volume of unwanted email. 707-829-0515, ex. 230 lisam@oreilly.com Jason Catlett is president of Junkbusters, a leading consumer resource on the control of telemarketing calls, unwanted mail, junk mail (spam) and commercial invasion of privacy invasion of privacy n. the intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause, which can give the person whose privacy has been invaded a right to bring a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity that intruded. . 908-753-7861 catlett@junkbusters.com Simson Garfinkal is the author of several books concerning technological issue such as security, Stopping Spam, and an upcoming book; Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. 707-829-0515 ext 230 lisam@oreilly.com Sunil Paul, chairman and founder of Brightmail, Inc.is an expert in spam legislation. 415-365-6190 wadooah_wali@ipri.com William Boni, director of Cyber Fraud, PwC Investigations, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control PricewaterhouseCoopers, is an expert in cyber crime and abuse of the Internet. 213-452-7847, 212-597-3013 william.c.boni@us.pwcglobal.com PR: Douglas C. Wilson, Media Relations, Senior Manager (doug.c.wilson@us.pwcglobal.com). Alan Brill, managing director at Kroll Associates, regularly advises corporations and governments on computer security, and has conducted investigations of Internet e-mail fraud. 212-833-3238 abrill@kroll-ogara.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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