unsolicited commercial email (UCE) so that does make it a little clearer. Since a good portion of spam is pornographic and companies usually have a strict policy against using company resources for that sort of thing, it's gotta be somebody's job to stop it from getting in.
All too frequently, companies look to their IT security managers to solve their spam problems.
But spam is not a security issue and should not be a matter of central control, according to Les Fraser, deputy chairman of the British Computer Society's security expert panel.
Writing for the Computer Weekly Infosecurity User Group's website, Fraser argued that the spam debate has delivered little of substance and questioned what all the fuss was about.
"Various figures quoted suggest that more than 40% of all e-mail traffic is spam. But what does the term mean?" he said.
"If spam is defined as unsolicited e-mail, then most e-mail is unsolicited, in practice. If spam is advertising e-mail, then since when was advertising a crime? If spam is whatever you as an individual want to complain about, that is an entirely different, and quite subjective definition."
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