The war on spam won't be won with a fragmented approach in which all the stakeholders are working at cross purposes. In February, JamSpam was born as forum to bring all the stakeholders together to address the spam problem in a coordinated fashion.
I formulated JamSpam on the premise that significant progress against spam will be forestalled until all of the stakeholders commit to an unprecedented level of multilateral cooperation. Since those initial meetings, some progress has been made, but not enough to have significant impact in eliminating spam. What follows is a report card on how the various stakeholders, or communities, in the battle against spam are faring. Click here for a look at our grading criteria.
The six communities are:
The standard for performance to which the communities are being held is based on the principles identified by JamSpam participants. The JamSpam principles encourage cooperation both within the communities as well as between communities. Despite the common sense that such a concerted, holistic approach makes, the various stakeholders are still primarily engaged in a series of fractured approaches that, while well-intentioned, appear to put the interests of the communities and stakeholders ahead of the greater good of stopping spam for the betterment of the entire Internet community.
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