- MailChannels
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MailChannels Corporation Type Private Industry Computer Security Founded Vancouver, British Columbia (March 2004) Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (incorporated in Ottawa) Key people Ken Simpson, CEO
Stas Bekman, Director of Research
Mike Smith, Director of DevelopmentProducts MailChannels Outbound, Traffic Control Website www.mailchannels.com MailChannels Corporation is an anti-spam technology company founded in 2004 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm was created by some former employees of ActiveState to develop new techniques for fighting spam. The company's first product, "Traffic Control," is a software-based SMTP proxy that provides tar-pitting and transparent SMTP proxy functionality. At the 2007 MIT Spam Conference, the company's founder, Ken Simpson, was awarded the "best paper" award.
In September 2010, the company launched an outbound spam protection product called "MailChannels Outbound" that claims to be capable of filtering up to 30 millions messages per hour, transparently, within a network.
See also
- Mail transport agent
- Tarpit (networking)
- E-mail spam
External links
- WHIR Web Host Industry Review: MailChannels Provides Outbound Spam Filter to Web Host VPS.NET
- Washington Post: Technology Aims to Bore Impatient Spammers
- Network World: Tarpits deter impatient spammers
- The Register: Spam: It sucks like a tarpit
- O'Reilly Radar: Spamonomics 101
- OnLAMP: Developing High Performance Asynchronous IO Applications
- MailChannels Blog announcement about outbound spam filtering
- MailChannels Outbound Product Page
Categories:- Anti-spam
- Spam filtering
- Spamming
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