Following months of investigations, mainland authorities have identified and blacklisted 656 spam servers worldwide, reported Chinese newswire Xinhua. The majority of these are hosted outside Asia but the list included 65 servers in Taiwan, six and Hong Kong and 63 within China itself.
The report said these blacklisted servers will be closely monitored by an IT association in the country--the Internet Society of China-- and they will be blocked if they continue to send junk e-mails to mainland users after Mar.20 this year.
This is not the first time Chinese authorities are moving to stop the spam plague. According to the report, China banned 127 e-mail servers last year for sending unsolicited mail.
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