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China asks 656 spam servers to stop sending junk mail
Beijing, Feb 19: China has identified and published a `blacklist` of 656 spam internet servers across the world and set March 20 as the deadline for them to stop sending junk mail.
Beijing, Feb 19: China has identified and published a 'blacklist' of 656 spam internet servers across the world and set March 20 as the deadline for them to stop sending junk mail.
Of these spam servers, 523 are based abroad, 62 on the Chinese mainland, 65 in Taiwan and six in Hong Kong, the Internet Society of China said here.
The ISA said it will closely monitor the operation of the servers on the list. Sanctions will be imposed on those which continue sending junk mail after March 20.
Once these servers stop sending junk mail, the society will remove them from the blacklist, its official Li Yuxiao was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency today.
In order to fight the increasing amount of junk mail on the internet, the society publicised two separate lists of a total of 397 spam servers in 2003 and imposed a large-scale spammer blockade against servers which refused to stop their activities.
E-mail messages from the sanctioned servers were automatically refused by recipient servers.
The new blacklist was the result of several months' monitoring work by the state-run Internet Society of China, which is made up of 140 members drawn from private companies, schools and research institutes.
The number of internet surfers in China grew to 79.5 million at the end of 2003, up 34.5 per cent over the previous year, making it the world's second-largest web population after the US, the China Internet Network Information Centre said. Bureau Report
The ISA said it will closely monitor the operation of the servers on the list. Sanctions will be imposed on those which continue sending junk mail after March 20.
Once these servers stop sending junk mail, the society will remove them from the blacklist, its official Li Yuxiao was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency today.
In order to fight the increasing amount of junk mail on the internet, the society publicised two separate lists of a total of 397 spam servers in 2003 and imposed a large-scale spammer blockade against servers which refused to stop their activities.
E-mail messages from the sanctioned servers were automatically refused by recipient servers.
The new blacklist was the result of several months' monitoring work by the state-run Internet Society of China, which is made up of 140 members drawn from private companies, schools and research institutes.
The number of internet surfers in China grew to 79.5 million at the end of 2003, up 34.5 per cent over the previous year, making it the world's second-largest web population after the US, the China Internet Network Information Centre said. Bureau Report