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FTC shuts down Spam Network
July 11th, 2009Recently the Federal Trade Commission shut down a rouge Internet service provided doing business under the names Pricewart, 3FN and APS Telecom. People are reporting up to a 20% drop in spam levels. Email administrators (and us) are celebrating this as hopefully one in the start of many actions the FTC is going to take this year.
For those of you who host their email with us, let me give you an idea of the amount of spam we filter every day. As of July 1, 2009 we host about 150 domain names for customers with a total of 500 mailboxes. Every day we receive approximately 800,000 emails – of those, we allow around 20,000 emails into mailboxes. That’s 97.5% of all emails are tagged as spam by our filtering software. It’s a never ending battle for us every day.
If you want to read more about the FTC action, or see the rules around CAN-SPAM compliance (which every company is supposed to abide by), you can check out the FTC’s site.
FTC’s action against Pricewart: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/06/3fn.shtm
FTC’s page on CAN-SPAM: FTC’s page on CAN-SPAM: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/ecommerce/bus61.shtm
