Archive for October, 2007

Spam Filtering and Common Carrier Status

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

The Ferris Research blog has an entry on ISPs and whether spam blocking is at odds with the common carrier status that seems to protect them from certain liabilities:
This debate is happening again. Thanks to the good work done by MAAWG and others, ISPs are being encouraged to set up outbound spam filtering, to prevent […]

Mail Filters Are Apolitical

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Recently Digg linked to an article titled ‘Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails‘.
The short version is that an online special interest group noticed that they were having issues with mail not being delivered when sent to Comcast addresses. They then worked their way though the Comcast abuse department to finally find that Symantec’s Brightmail was filtering […]