The Spam Battle 2002: A Tactical Update

As the cost of spam has increased for ISPs, businesses, and end users alike, keeping up with these methods has become increasingly essential to protect the usefulness of email. This paper presents an overview of the present state of the spam situation, briefly addressing the history of fighting spam, new fronts and tactics over the past two years and then presents policy and technical tools for the security-minded administrator to face these new fronts.