Tag archive: Brightmail

In a development that probably stuns nobody, it appears that pornographic spammers have not abided by the new law that says they must tag their subject lines as pornographic. A report by CNET News.com cites Brightmail's numbers that show that not only did sexually explicit spam fail to slow down after the new regulations took effect, but pornographic messages actually increased. According to the report, one company sent out 2.5… Read More

Brightmail, which has filters on around 25 percent of the world's e-mail addresses, is used by both TelstraClear and Telecom New Zealand Ltd.'s Xtra and so covers around 85 percent of New Zealand's e-mail. Brightmail vice president for Asia-Pacific, Garry Sexton, says that with the introduction of anti-spam legislation spammers have developed a “damn the torpedoes” approach. Read more at IT World.