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China publicizes list of 656 spam servers

The Internet Society of China (ISA) publicized on February 18 a blacklist of 656 spam servers across the world, and set a deadline for them to stop sending junk mail.


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The Internet Society of China (ISA) publicized on February 18 a blacklist of 656 spam servers across the world, and set a deadline for them to stop sending junk mail.

Of these spam servers, 62 are on the Chinese mainland, 65 in Taiwan province, six in Hong Kong and 523 from outside China.

The ISA will closely monitor the operation of the servers on the list. Sanctions will be imposed on those which continue sending junk mail after March 20. Once these servers stop sending junk mail, the ISA will eliminate them from the blacklist, said Li Yuxiao, an ISA official.

In order to fight against the increasing amount of junk mail on the Internet, the ISA publicized two separate lists of a total of 397 spam servers in 2003, and imposed a large-scale spammer blockade against servers which refused to stop their activities. E-mail messages from the sanctioned servers were automatically refused by recipient servers.

The new blacklist was the result of several months' monitoring work by the state-run Internet Society of China, which is made up of 140 members drawn from private companies, schools and research institutes. The Beijing-based group aims to promote the development of the Internet throughout the country.

The number of Internet surfers in China grew to 79.5 million at the end of 2003, up 34.5 percent over the previous year, making it the world's second-largest Web population after the United States, the China Internet Network Information Center said on its Web site www.cnnic.com.cn.

Many Chinese Internet users have been complaining that their e-mail in-boxes are being choked with junk mail daily, and some have had to gave up e-mail addresses used for years.

An estimated 50 percent of all e-mail messages in circulation by the end of 2003 could have been unsolicited "spam," which may have cost as much as US$20.5 billion in wasted technical resources, a report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned.

Source:Xinhua




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