MX Logic Sees Unsolicited Commercial Email Senders Making Some Efforts to Comply With CAN-SPAM Act; 12 Percent of Spam Is Partially Compliant

Business Wire, May 5, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2004

MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, resellers and their customers, today announced that it has observed that 12 percent of senders of unsolicited commercial email are making efforts to comply with components of The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act.

Unsolicited commercial email that is wholly compliant with the law remains at 3 percent, representing no change in month-to-month compliance since the law went into effect on Jan. 1. Seventy-seven percent of all email traffic that passed through the MX Logic Threat Center in April was spam.

"Monitoring by our Threat Center reveals that 12 percent of unsolicited commercial email complies with every facet of the law -- except making the subject line consistent with the body of the email. So, while there is some tip-toeing toward compliance, we continue to see spammers failing to include content consistent with the subject line," said Scott Chasin, chief technology officer, MX Logic.

Chasin noted, however, that recent movement on the enforcement front -- including the six lawsuits filed by ISPs in March and last week's arrest of four inveterate spammers under the CAN-SPAM Act -- will eventually nudge compliance upward.

"As the government continues to flex its full CAN-SPAM Act enforcement muscle, we remain confident that there will be an increase in compliance," he said.

The CAN-SPAM Act requires that unsolicited commercial email senders:

-- Ensure that the "FROM" line clearly reflects the sender's

identity

-- Include subject line text consistent with message content

-- Include the advertiser's valid postal address

-- Contain a working opt-out mechanism as a way for the consumer

to decline to receive further commercial email from the sender

MX Logic monitors compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act by examining a random sample of up to 10,000 unsolicited commercial emails each week. The email defense company releases CAN-SPAM compliance data each month. Media and analysts interested in receiving monthly compliance statistics can subscribe to MX Logic's CAN-SPAM update by sending an email to canspam@mxlogic.com.

MX Logic provides innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, and resellers and their customers. Powering MX Logic's Email Defense solutions is MX Logic's Threat Center, a sophisticated streaming-data environment where MX Logic monitors the global state of email communication 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides MX Logic's customers with real-time updates and protection. Led by email security experts with extensive experience in protecting messaging networks, the Threat Center provides dynamic email defense -- staying ahead of the next attack by continually incorporating information about the latest spammer, virus and worm tactics.

About MX Logic

MX Logic, Inc., provides innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, and resellers and their customers. Deployed as a managed service or on-premise software, the company's feature-rich solution suite is the industry's most comprehensive, flexible and easy to use.

Founded by messaging industry pioneers, MX Logic has delivered numerous industry firsts to the enterprise spam market, including becoming the first managed service provider to: leverage Bayesian Statistical Classification; provide spam beacon ("Web bug") blocking; offer quarantine management via email; provide corporate-level quarantine release reports that help reduce inappropriate email while decreasing corporate liability; and deliver a solution for tracking URL click-throughs from email to the Web, providing increased corporate control and security.

Through the company's managed service offering, MX Logic processes millions of messages per day for over 1,700 organizations, including EnCana, Hyundai Motor America, Sports Authority, YMCA, Service Master and U.S.I. Holdings Corporation. In addition, MX Logic is the only email defense company to offer both a managed service and a turnkey, carrier-grade software solution for service providers. For more information, visit www.mxlogic.com.