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24 Apr 2006

Better automated abuse reporting with ARF Email
Since we know we're not going to find a
FUSSP any time soon, anti-spam efforts are concentrating on incremental efforts to make the current mail system, messy though it is, work better. Dealing with abuse reports is a particularly messy and labor-intensive area that desperately needs more automation.

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06 Apr 2006

California Frets about Goodmail Email

On Monday the 3rd, California state Senator Dean Flores held a hearing of the E-Commerce, Wireless Technology, and Consumer Driven Programming committee grandly titled AOL: You Have Certified Mail, Will Paid E-mail Lead to Separate, Unequal Systems or is it the Foolproof Answer to Spam?. The senator's office said they were very eager to have me there, to the extent they offered to fly me out from New York, so since I happened to be on the way home from ICANN in New Zealand that weekend, I took a detour through Sacramento. Sen. Florez conducted the hearing, with Sens. Escutia and Torlakson sitting in briefly. Unfortunately, Sen. Bowen, who is very well informed on these topics, wasn't there.

There were five panels of speakers, and I got to lead off.

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