FTC: Spam Filtering Getting Better
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
E-mail "spammers" are aggressive as ever but Internet providers are getting better at blocking junk messages before they reach users' inboxes, according to a U.S. Federal Trade Commission study released on Monday.
The FTC found that spammers continue to "scrape" e-mail addresses from the Web using automated programs that look for the telltale "@" sign.
But up to 96 percent of those messages were blocked by the two Web-based e-mail providers used by the FTC in its test. The FTC did not say which providers it used in its study.
posted by Fergie @ 11/28/2005 01:38:00 PM
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