How Far Should We Go In The Fight Against Spam?

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Just how serious is spam?

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Web search engine spam, online classified ads spam, Internet forum spam, and social networking spam.

Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low the volume of unsolicited mail has become very high. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the deluge.

Valid e-mail is routed from a sender (point A) through a valid mail server (B) to a receiving mail server (C) and then to the recipient (D). Most spammers, on the other hand, use their personal computers as points A and B and send directly to the recipient’s mail server (point C), bypassing a valid sending mail server, which would not normally permit spam. More than 90 percent of spam is from a spammers’ personal computer or from a system infected with a virus and sent directly to the recipient’s mail server.

To fight harmful spam, wholesale ISP visp.net has developed proprietary wireless ISP software with Sender Service Validation (SSV), a new anti-spam tool that makes it more difficult than ever to infect end-users’ e-mail inboxes with junk e-mail and viruses.

The new tool acts like WISP billing software but, significantly reduces spam in a subscriber’s e-mail inbox by verifying the remote server through soft greylisting and a combination of other tools. With SSV enabled, visp.net’s mail server detects this distinction and delivers the message only after the sending mail server has been validated. Thus, spam will never reach a customer’s subscribers when they have SSV-enabled because SSV confirms the validity of the remote mail server with a high degree of accuracy.

About visp.net

Visp.net, an award-winning wholesale ISP, develops innovative wireless ISP management software that enables Internet Service Providers to reach more subscribers, improve their services and significantly reduce management and support overhead. Visit the official site at http://www.visp.net/.

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