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Spamhaus
The Spamhaus Project is an international organisation based in the Principality of Andorra, founded in 1998 by Steve Linford to track email spammers and spam-related activity. The name ''spamhaus'', a pseudo-German expression, was coined by Linford to refer to an internet service provider, or other firm, which spams or knowingly provides service to spammers. Anti-spam lists The Spamhaus Project is responsible for compiling several widely used anti-spam lists. Many internet service providers and email servers use the lists to reduce the amount of spam that reaches their users. In 2006, the Spamhaus services protected 650 million email users, including the European Parliament, US Army, the White House and Microsoft, from billions of spam emails a day. Spamhaus distributes the lists in the form of DNS-based blocklists (DNSBLs). The lists are offered as a free public service to low-volume mail server operators on the internet. Commercial spam filtering services and other sites per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Linford
Stephen John "Steve" Linford (born 12 December 1956) is a British entrepreneur and Spam (electronic), anti-spam campaigner best known for founding The Spamhaus Project. Linford was born in London, England, in 1956. His family moved to Rome, Italy, where Steve attended St. George's British International School. After leaving college to pursue a music career, Linford made his living writing music and playing with Italian, German and English rock groups.Brian McWilliams (2004). ''Spam Kings'', pp 76–77. O'Reilly Media. For a number of years he was under contract to Italy's 'GM' record label and worked on film music with composer Ennio Morricone In the early 1980s he became involved in concert production. When artists including Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson toured Italy, Linford served as their Production Manager. As computers began to be used in the music industry, Linford developed an interest in computer technology. In 1986 he moved to England, where he set up a software comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
