ClickZ: Industry Figures Give Anti-Spam Guidelines Thumbs Up

Yesterday a consortium of ISPs including Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and AOL published an email best practices document, which mostly rehashed some existing suggested policies. The main point centered on efforts to authenticate sender identities. As a new measure, the Anti-Spam Technical Alliance did start recommending that ISPs disable accounts that have "gone zombie," where users' computers are taken over by sneaky software to be used as spam outlets. A ClickZ review of email industry luminaries showed that most people supported the new document, with the only complaint being that there wasn't much new about it.