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MAAWG Published Documents

These best practices and white papers represent the cooperative efforts of MAAWG members to provide the industry with recommendations and background information to improve messaging security and protect users. MAAWG best practices are updated as needed and new documents are added as they become available.

Recommendations to help ISPs and network operators detect, notify and remove bots from customers’ computers. Also includes resources consumers may find helpful in detecting and removing malware - July 2009, Version 1.0
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In its fifth year of the vital and challenging work of combating online abuse and spam, MAAWG continued its steady development and grew by 27 percent.
A discussion on improving non-deliverability status notices to better identify abuse issues
Demystifies the messaging reputation technology now used by most large service providers to identify abusive and errant emails as junk mail
An overview of authentication technology focusing on the standardized mechanisms in general use today, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Sender IDentification Framework (SenderID), and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Recommendations for both forwarders and ISPs to help distinguish legitimate consumers using a forwarding service from spammers
Describes four approaches to make dynamic IP addresses more easily obtainable by mailbox providers with a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each