1 July 2008 10:24 GMT / By Katie Scott
New guidelines have been published to help the fight against that most ubiquitous of cyber pests, the spammer.The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group has compiled a list of best practices which it is sending to ISPs.
They include recommendations to use separate servers for received and forwarded emails as well as urging internet providers to post their spam policies on the web.
The guidelines are hoped to help in the fight against spam, which has been estimated to account for over 90% of all email content.
But they will also protect consumers from getting "unnecessarily or unintentionally'" blocked.
More than 230 abuse and privacy professionals from ISPs, email providers and vendors from 18 companies attended a meeting to finalise the new papers.
Richard Cox, from UK anti-spam group Spamhaus, told the BBC: "These are very significant recommendations and they are coming from a well-respected body so there is not much excuse for not following them".
Software, Online, Spam, ISPs


Acer CloudMobile Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone set for MWC launch 4.3-inch award winner
Best iPhone utilities apps Resistance is futilities?
BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981 For the fast lane
iPad 3 leaked pictures suggest improved battery and better camera Case images aplenty
Best iPhone productivity apps Speedy
Samsung Galaxy S III: Review of rumours, features, pictures and specs Thinner, faster, better
New HTC Ice Cream Sandwich device pictures leak Another one for the rumour pile...
LG Miracle picture and details leak Update: More pictures from the wild
iPad 3 launch event first week of March According to AllThingsD
Nokia 700 Sleek and desirable Nokia
HTC dates Ice Cream Sandwich update, Sensation models get it first End of March
Google home entertainment device detailed WSJ solves device mystery
Google Drive coming to take on Dropbox and iCloud G-Drive set to land
Tesla Model X SUV goes back to the future DeLorean lookalike announced
Apple iTV: Review of rumours, features, pictures and specs iT'S coming
Panasonic Lumix GX1 review
The one?
Sony PlayStation Vita review
Curriculum Vita
Nokia Lumia 710 review
WP7 on a budget
GoPro HD Hero2 review
Amazing things come in small packages
HTC Explorer review
A phone for people who make calls
BlackBerry Torch 9810 review
Middle of the road
Sony Alpha A65 review
Affordable SLT. But is it a DSLR-beater?
Fiat 500 TwinAir Plus review
Two-cylinder beast
BlackBerry Bold 9790 review
To boldly go where we've already been before
Motorola MotoACTV review
Just add exercise
Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition review
Mini Xoom
Sennheiser IE80 review
Tune that bass
Kingston Wi-Drive review
Expand your storage
Huawei Ideos X3 review
Cheap but imperfect
BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981 review
For the fast lane