Comcast Zeros In On Spammers

Comcast now is trying to cut off spammers before they unleash torrents of junk e-mail. The operator in the third quarter deployed a "sender reputation" service from San Francisco-based Cloudmark to pinpoint potential spammers.

[brucearnold]

Big Brother Has a Name, and that Name is CLOUDMARK: This 1984-ish content-based "spam signature" filter--touted as one of Communist China's most effective Internet censorship tools--now gives Comcast, Network Solutions and many other major US ISPs and web services complete control over what emails YOU are allowed to send or receive. With Cloudmark, they can define whatever they choose to be a "spam signature", including the name of a cause they don't support, or the business telephone numbers of people who do. Here is how I know: tinyurl[dot]com/Cloudmark