09 May 2003Yahoo! Behind 1st Anti-spam Day
Yahoo! is to pioneer the first European anti-spam day to raise awareness about unsolicited junk e-mailing.
Dunk the Junk Day will take place on 22 May.
Yahoo! aim to inform Internet users on how to crack down on
spam - as many users perpetrate the problem through email forwards. Anti-spammers will even have a chance to name and shame the UK's worst spammers.
Spam makes up 40% of global email
traffic, according to Web security firm MessageLabs and is taking its toll on firms who claim to lose millions of pounds in productivity.
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