Email Reaction publishes spam vocabulary to help legitimate messages get through.

Did you hear about the dainty Swiss man who watches The Three Degrees--while eating fish paste sandwiches and drinking a hot beverage--to alleviate his depression? Probably not: his story would most likely have been filtered to the spam bin, as Email Reaction's list of the top words used in spam reveals. Email Reaction is a leading UK provider of email marketing services and technology with a strong anti-spam policy.

Spam filters give words a score based on how likely it is a message that uses them is junk. When an email message is received, the scores for the words in the message are combined with other factors (including the sender's details and how the message is structured technically) to determine how likely it is a particular message is spam.

Blue Coat K9 Web Protection is a content filtering solution for the home computer. Its job is to provide a family-safe Internet experience, where parents control the Internet content that enters their homes. K9 Web Protection implements the same enterprise-class Web filtering technology used by Blue Coat's Fortune 500 customers around the world, wrapped in simple, friendly, and reliable software for a family's Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer. Blue Coat's unique Web filtering technology divides Internet content into more than 55 categories. These categories are stored in the master Blue Coat database, through which Blue Coat maintains and updates more than 15 million Website and domains ratings. A Website will fall into one or more of these categories, based on the content of the site. To meet a family's particular needs and preferences, parents can configure the software to block or allow specific categories.

K9 Web Protection is different from other solutions for the home in several important respects:

Highest Level of Accuracy -- Blue Coat's filtering database receives and rates over 50 million requests every day, making it one of the most accurate and relevant content filtering database available. Rather than downloading a static database with "stale" data that gets periodic updates, K9 Web Protection uses a centralised database that is constantly up-to-date.

Communication with the database is fast and won't clog a home's Internet connection or slow down a computer. Dynamic Real-Time Rating (DRTR) -- Blue Coat's patent-pending DRTR technology uses statistical analysis and artificial intelligence to rate new or previously unrated Web pages. DRTR is highly accurate in identifying pornography sites. This focus for DRTR is particularly important because these kinds of sites are constantly--daily and even hourly--popping up on the Internet, and no static database can keep up.

Ease of Use -- K9 Web Protection installs quickly and easily. Automatic updates of the K9 Web Protection application ensure that families are always protected by the latest features. By electing to block sites known as spyware/malware sources, families can dramatically reduce their computer's rate of infection by unwanted software. K9 will automatically update as newer versions become available.

Unlike other filtering solutions, K9 Web Protection ensures the highest level of protection by building the most relevant ratings database available. Its effective coverage includes more than a billion Web pages.

Future versions of the product will include chat and instant message blocking, multiple user profiles, and Macintosh support.

K9 Web Protection is free for home use, and is available immediately for at www.getK9.com