I wish I had known about Cloudmark on Tuesday at the GIP conference on spam. As I was quoted in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, “this is promising”. CloudMark claims to have over 5,000 users already. They just came out of stealth mode on Wednesday. They also claim to have processed more than 4 million emails and “caught” about a million and a half spam emails. The software only works with Outlook Express — not my favoriate email program. I hope they also produce versions for Linux, the Mac, Eudora, Notes, and other email platforms. As someone at the GIP conference said, “there are more of us than there are of them”, referring to spammers. If CloudMark’s SpamNet can do what they says it does indeed sound promising.

• Presentations made at the GIP workshop “Spam: Can It Be Stopped?” — (update Mar. 23, 2013 no longer available)
• The Spam Has Got To Go
• FTC – You’ve Got Spam: How to “Can” Unwanted Email
• Computerworld – Search goes on for ways to stop spam