New tactics emerge in the fight against spam

Spam fighters may have to rely on new tactics as spam filters and internet blacklists seem to have no real impact on the quantity of junk mail, Computerworld writes. With spam percentage growing with every year, some estimates include numbers that are almost unbelievable: spam makes up more than 60% of all the email sent throughout the Internet.

However, those who fight spam say it is high time to change the strategy. According to them, spam websites that make the most money out of junk mail must be shut down. A new project, KnujOn (try reading it backwards), supposedly should help stop, or at least soften, the spam menace. By targeting the spammers’ websites, the anti-spam activists hope to counter the junk mail threat, and they have the results to show it: more than 30,000 spam sites were shut down since the start of the project.

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