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The 9th General Meeting of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) will be held in San Francisco, California from January 29 through January 31, 2007. January 29th sessions are reserved for MAAWG members. Meeting registration will close on January 25, 2007 at 5PM PST.

Sessions and panels include:

• Keynote by Howard A. Schmidt
• Increases in Spam: What’s Really Going On? Real World Metrics and Latest Trends
• Law Enforcement Collaboration and Training
• Believe in the User: Your Users Can Help Catch Spam
• Reputation is Everything; Everything is Reputation: Making Identity Validation Useful
• Think Globally, Act Collaboratively: Important Anti-Abuse Organizations

“The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group is a global organization focusing on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse with the goal of enhancing user trust and confidence, while ensuring the deliverability of legitimate messages. With a broad base of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and network operators representing over 600 million mailboxes, key technology providers and senders, MAAWG works to address messaging abuse by focusing on technology, industry collaboration and public policy initiatives”

“The purpose of MAAWG is to bring the messaging industry together to work collaboratively and successfully address forms of messaging abuse such as messaging spam, virus attacks, denial-of-service attacks, and other forms of abuse. To accomplish this, MAAWG is developing initiatives in the three areas needed to resolve the messaging abuse problem: Collaboration, Technology, and Public Policy.”