[photopress:it_electronic_stamps.jpg,full,alignright]China may well use electronic stamps to help stamp out spam. The idea was floated by Wang Xiujun, a commissioner from the Anti-Spam Task Force of the Internet Society of China, at the China Internet Conference Green Network Culture Construction Forum held in Kunshan .
The commission is working with research institutions like Shanghai Jiaotong University on the development of the e-stamp, a kind of technology that will help identify emails from the source and prevent spam during email sending.
Wang says that e-stamp will distinguish commercial email and spam.
Latest surveys show that in the first half of this year, spam has accounted for 58% of the total emails that Chinese Internet users have received, which is up to 6% less than the first quarter of the year.
According to Spamhaus, the world’s largest anti-spam organization, China currently ranks second, behind the United States, as the origination of most unsolicited bulk email. This does not mean the end of the sort of stamps in our illustration. Although their use diminishes by the day.
Source: Jongo News