An initiative to encourage more global co-operation in combating junk e-mail has been set up by six international organizations involved in spam-fighting.
StopSpamAlliance, launched on Tuesday, is a joint initiative to gather information and resources on combating spam.
The organizations involved in the initiative are APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation), the European Union's CNSA (contact network of spam-enforcement authorities), ITU (International Telecommunication Union), the London Action Plan, OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and the Seoul-Melbourne Anti-Spam group, according to the StopSpamAlliance website.
The StopSpamAlliance hopes to help businesses and consumers deal with unsolicited junk e-mail. Its web pages link to initiatives in anti-spam legislation and enforcement activities, consumer and business education, best practices for dealing with spam, and international co-operation. An agenda detailing anti-spam events by the organizations involved is also available on the site.
The initiative was set up in line with the World Summit on Information Society 2005 Tunis agenda, which asked members to "deal effectively with the significant and growing problem posed by spam" and calling upon all stakeholders to adopt a multi-pronged approach to counter it.
The Chinese government fined the country's first spammer in August. China contributes the most spam in Asia, accounting for 22.3 percent of all spam monitored by security vendor Sophos.
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