BestPrac.Org
Stop Spam : Best Practice in Email
Spam Prevention and Eradication
Best Practices release brings hope for an end to spam.
Summary:
Bestprac.Org releases twenty updated sets of "Principles of Best
Practice for the Prevention and Eradication of Email Spam" covering all
sectors of the allied internet industries and professions. The
Principles are aimed at promoting ethical and technological solutions
to prevent spam at source.
Sydney, Australia. Sunday May 12 2002.
The end may be in sight for the unwanted junk email plaguing inboxes worldwide, with the release this week of the latest updated set of "Principles of Best Practice for the Prevention and Elimination of Email Spam" by international antispam organization, BestPrac.Org.
The Chairman of BestPrac.Org, Mr. Trevor Johnson, announced in Sydney this week that the new series of "Principles of Best Practice" now cover twenty different categories within the allied internet industries and professions. Categories include ISPs, Hosting services, media buyers, web designers, email services, mailing list publishers, internet phone and fax services, software developers, and many more. The Principles cover a range of both ethical and technological standards designed primarily to prevent spam at source, or to eliminate it enroute as close to source as possible.
"With estimates putting the worldwide growth of spam at 400% each year, and with close to 40% of the entire world volume of email bandwidth being consumed by spam, the spam problem equals computer viruses as the most pernicious issue facing the internet worldwide today.
"The BestPrac.Org 'Principles of Best Practice', however, are potentially the most powerful strategy yet devised to deter and destroy spam at it's point of origin. The savings to the internet community, and to the global economy overall, in terms of reclaimed bandwidth and server capacities, increased workplace productivity and other costs, if all sectors of the allied internet industries and professions embrace the 'Principles of Best Practice' can be measured in the billions of dollars each year" Mr. Johnson said.
BestPrac.Org does not see itself as competing with other antispam organizations, Mr. Johnson stressed. He sees the role of Bestprac.Org as complementary to the other major antispam organizations which BestPrac.Org support and recommend.
"My father used to tell me when I was a boy that there was more than one way of killing a cat than choking it with half a pound of butter", he said. "Likewise, different antispam organizations are taking different approaches to fighting the battle against spam. We are not competing against one another. We are each specializing in differing approaches to a common problem. Together, we will win the war against spam."
The BestPrac.Org website (http://www.bestprac.org) provides the full twenty sets of Principles of Best Practice free of charge. The service is funded by voluntary donations from anyone who wishes to support the campaign for best ethical and technological practices to end the scourge of spam.
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