China blacklists spam servers
2004-02-19 09:07
Beijing - China's internet police has published a blacklist of 656 spam servers across the world, setting a deadline for them to stop sending junk mail, state media reported on Thursday.
The Internet Society of China will closely monitor the 656 servers and if they continue sending junk mail after March 20, they will be blocked, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The blacklist, resulting from months of monitoring, includes 62 Chinese servers, 65 Taiwanese, six in Hong Kong and 523 in the rest of the world, according to Xinhua.
In September last year, China blocked 127 Chinese and local spam servers, causing e-mail messages from the sanctioned servers to be automatically refused by recipient servers.
Chinese internet users have been complaining over the past weeks that their e-mail inboxes are plagued by junk mail, forcing some users to give up e-mail addresses that they have used for years, Xinhua said.