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Automating Spam Reporting in Australia

Posted by michael on from the whack-a-mole dept.

ozmanjusri writes "The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) and a local ISV have teamed up to test an automated spam reporting system. An Australian software group has produced the SpamMatters plugin for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook express to allow single-click submission of spam to the ACA database. The database is able to process and analyse large amounts of spam and use the information to track down spammers."

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  1. extension for thunderbird by astrodud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This would be a perfect example of a potential thunderbird extension. Is anyone working on this?