Anti-Spam Tutorial

Unsolicited commercial email (UCE), also known as "spam", is currently the most frequent complaint from users of the Internet, and is a potential threat to the effectiveness of email as a form of communication.

This tutorials will discuss the concept of spam and examine a number of tips and measures to defend against spam. Participants will also look at ways to cut down on UCE using filters, blacklists, and other anti-spam techniques, and discuss how to set up email policies to combat spam.

The tutorial will also look at a comparative study of spam laws in the Asia Pacific region.

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at email adminstrators, ISPs, end users, and anyone with an interest in combating spam.

Miwa Fujii (APNIC Training, Research and Development Officer):
Miwa has served as an APNIC trainer since 2002. During this period she has provided Internet resource management education and training to many people,countries and regions in the Asia Pacific. Miwa has developed and delivered, with her colleagues, raining programs on IPv6, Internet security, and Internet Routing Registry, among other topics.

Before joining the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Miwa worked at IBM Australia as operations manager, them leader and trainer for the IBM Asia Pacific Technical Support Centre. Previously, she served various organisations as a LAN administrator, including Jardine Fleming Securities and Warburg Investment Management. Miwa was educated in Japan and Australia and holds a master degree in eCommerce.

Champika Wijayatunga is a Senior Training Specialist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for Asia Pacific. He is responsible for development and delivery of regular face-to-face training and technical workshops for the APNIC region.

His areas of interest includes Internet Resource Management, DNS, Security, Routing & IPv6. Prior to APNIC he worked as a Software Systems Specialist, Systems Engineer, an Instructor at IBM Corporation (IBM Sri Lanka) and as a Research Associate at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Champika is currently based in Brisbane, Australia and has a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science & Engineering.