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Stephen Downes

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This brief article describes the Anti-Spam Research Group's plans to combat the growing nuisance. The plan is significant because, as the article points out, "The ASRG has the prestige to get its proposals put in place." One major initiative: enabling technology that makes it diffocult to send emails with false email addresses. This alone would be a major boon, since it would allow countermeasures to be taken against known spammers. Other rpoposals include trusted sender technology, reputation systems, spam reporting systems, and more.

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