The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) was a research group started within the
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), where its charter concluded on 18 March 2013.
It is still a reference and a melting pot for anti-spam research and theorization. In particular, the wiki lives on.
Dedicated to research into curbing spam on an Internet-wide level, it consists of a mailing list to coordinate work and a small web site with a wiki.
As with other IRTF groups, the ASRG contributed to the
Internet Engineering Task Force
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(IETF) process with drafts, documents, and assistance in the creation of new
working group
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s. One IETF group spun off from the ASRG is
MARID
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In Arabic sources Etymology
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.
The ASRG is sporadically active, as little evolves in the anti-spam landscape, with most activity happening on the mailing list. In 2008 the ASRG worked on Internet Drafts about
DNSBLs, in 2010 on the standardization of
Feedback loop (email).
Chairs of the ASRG
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John R. Levine of
Taughannock Networks
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The park's namesake, Taughannock Falls, is a plunge waterfall ...
(2003–2013)
*
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of
SolidMatrix Technologies (2003 - 2004)
*
Paul Q. Judge of
Ciphertrust, Inc.
CipherTrust was an anti-spam techniques (e-mail), anti-spam email software company based in Alpharetta, GA (a suburb of Atlanta), although they had offices around the world. The company was co-founded by Jay Chaudhry and Lawrence Hughes (both form ...
(2003)
References
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External links
wiki Main Page
Spamming
Email authentication