This page contains articles I have written related to anti-spam technologies and research, primarily focused on my work at the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) and related standards.
(All standards and related stuff can be found on this page)
Articles I have written and published via my website/blog:
- ISPs Finally Realizing the Need to Police Their Own Users (October 4th, 2010)
- New IETF WG for ARF (January 26th, 2010)
- Weird Email Problems and rDNS (April 27th, 2007)
- SPF and Sender-ID RFCs Published (May 4th, 2006)
- New Focus for Blog Spam: Spreading Spyware (March 15th, 2005)
- Port Blocking: A Slippery Slope? (March 3rd, 2005)
- Why Bad is Good in Spam (February 2nd, 2005)
- Fighting Trackback Spam with Email Blacklists (February 1st, 2005)
- Finding MTA Market Share (January 31st, 2005)
- Google Releases New Features to Fight Comment Spam (January 18th, 2005)
- Larry Seltzer on Sender-ID (October 28th, 2004)
- How old is “Sender-ID”? (August 26th, 2004)
- Fighting Blog Comments Spam: Learn from Email (June 2nd, 2004)
- Corporations vs. the Community: Is it really true? (February 29th, 2004)
- Impressions from the NIST spam workshop (February 18th, 2004)
- Response to a WSJ article on C/R (November 18th, 2003)
Presentations I have done:
- MAAWG Email Subbmit; Panel with John Levine; Washington, DC; May 2004
- RE: “Do Not Email” Registry – Expert Testimony for the Federal Trade Commission (PDF); March 26, 2004 with John Levine
- “Introduction to the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG)” (PDF), Spam Technology Workshop, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD; February 17th, 2004 (PDF copy at NIST)
- “Introduction to the Work of the ASRG and Consent-Based Communications” (PDF), The Open Group Messaging Forum, Vienna, VA; October 22nd, 2003 (PDF copy at OpenGroup)
Things I have written that were published elsewhere:
- “The War on Spam: Update from the Front Lines”; Information Storage + Security Journal; May 3rd, 2005
- “Something’s Cooking at IETF with Email Authentication”; Circle-ID, January 10th, 2005
- “2004: The Year That Promised Email Authentication”; Circle-ID, December 27th, 2004
- “Sender-ID Back from the Dead”; Circle-ID, October 27th, 2004
- “For Now, Sender ID is Dead and MARID Shuts Down”; GrokLaw, September 23rd, 2004
- “MARID Is Dead”; Circle-ID, September 22nd, 2004
- “The Rumors of Sender ID’s Demise Are Exaggerated”; Circle-ID, September 13th, 2004
- “Sender ID: A Tale of Open Standards and Corporate Greed? – Part II”; Circle-ID, September 2nd, 2004
- “Sender ID: A Tale of Open Standards and Corporate Greed? – Part I”; Circle-ID, September 1st, 2004
- “Spam’s a different beast than snail”; CNET News.com, February 9th, 2004
- “Site Finder fact-finding”; CNET News.com, October 24th, 2003
Articles written by others, quoting me:
- “Comments on Email Authentication Summit” (PDF) [page 2]; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) / Federal Trade Commission; October 4th, 2004
- “Anti-Spam Effort Killed Amid Patent Row”; By Anick Jesdanun; The Associated Press; September 28th, 2004 (and photos)
- “Microsoft-backed antispam spec gets filtered out”; By Stefanie Olsen; CNET News.com; September 23rd, 2004,
- “Internet Task Force Shuts Down Anti-Spam Working Group”; By Larry Seltzer; eWeek; September 22nd, 2004,
- “Exposed Sender ID Patents Up Debate”; By Jim Wagner; InternetNews.com / JupiterMedia; September 20th, 2004
- “Email Sender ID: It’s not dead yet”; By Joe Barr; NewsForge; September 14th, 2004
- “MARID Floats Sender ID Compromise”; By Jim Wagner; InternetNews.com / JupiterMedia; September 8th, 2004
- “Is Sender ID Dead in the Water? – No MARID Working Group Consensus”; By Pamela Jones; GrokLaw.net; September 8th, 2004
- “Sender ID and Almost-Open Standards”; By Pamela Jones; GrokLaw.net; September 7th, 2004
- “Keeping how the net works open to all”; by Bill Board; BBC News; September 4th, 2004
- “National Do Not Email Registry A Report to Congress” (PDF) [page 28, footnote 151]; Federal Trade Commission; June 2004 (with John Levine)
- “VeriSign redirects error pages”; By Declan McCullagh; CNET News.com; September 16, 2003
Yakov Shafranovich 