[governance] brazil's anti-spam campaign results

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Thanks for sharing, Carlos
>
> Cgi.br deserves the highest praise for what they have accomplished.  Now
> the next challenge in brazil is the huge number of local email marketers
> who generally don't follow best practice and send extremely high volumes of
> spam.  Reaching out to them and influencing change in their marketing
> practices is the next, and far bigger challenge.
>
> --srs (iPad)
>

Indeed congratulations is indeed in order.

>
> On 23-Mar-2013, at 19:06, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
> > Dear people,
> >
> > [my excuses for eventual duplication]
> >
> > CGI.br has just presented a report on the results of a anti-spam
> campaign initiated in 2005 recommending Internet service providers to block
> SMTP service port 25.
> >
> > This has been a protracted effort trying to weight the pros and cons
> with users and the main broadband providers in the country. A CGI.br
> working group supported by NIC.br techies has been in a relentless
> pilgrimage to the ISPs to persuade them of the direct impact on spam in
> implementing this measure.
> >
> > The blocking does not affect email users, since webmail continues to
> operate normally without any reconfiguration, and users just reconfigure
> SMTP in their mail clients to use port 587 instead. Nearly all email
> service providers have already implemented secure access via port 587.
> >
> > The campaign emphasizes educating final users on the importance of this
> measure and on reconfiguring their mail programs to adjust to it.
> >
> > The adoption of the anti-spam measure has been slow, but from 2009 it
> picked up speed and the results can be seen in the graph (
> http://www.nic.br/imprensa/releases/2013/rl-2013-12.htm).
> >
> > In 2009 Brazil was first in the CBL spam lists with more than one
> million IPs, 17% of all listed IPs. Now, it is listed in 12th place with
> just 2% of all listed IPs, and the curve is clearly descending.
> >
> > One very relevant point is that the entire process is based on consensus
> and mutual collaboration -- no need for regulations or imposition of rules.
> >
> > The awareness campaign's main sources are (in Brazilian Portuguese):
> >
> > http://antispam.br/
> > http://cartilha.cert.br/
> >
> > fraternal regards
> >
> > --c.a.
> >
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