127 spam servers blocked
2003-09-09 12:04
Beijing - China's internet police have blocked 127 spam servers around the world in the latest move to fight the increasing amount of junk mail on the web, state press said on Tuesday.
The announcement of the blocked servers was made by the internet Society of China (ISA), Xinhua news service reported.
"This has been the first large-scale spammer blockade launched by the Chinese internet industry," said Ren Jinqiang, an ISA official.
He said e-mail messages from the sanctioned servers will be automatically refused by recipient servers.
Of all the blocked servers, 90 are from Taiwan, 29 from outside China and eight from China's mainland, including the popular internet service provider Shanghai Online (www.online.sh.cn).
The blacklist was the result of one month of monitoring work by ISA, Ren said, adding that the group last month published a list of 225 spam servers worldwide.
Chinese internet users have been complaining over the past weeks that their e-mail in-boxes are plagued by junk mail, forcing some users to give up e-mail addresses that they have used for years, it said.
- AFP