Suresh Ramasubramanian

Suresh Ramasubramanian

Head, Antispam Operations
Joined on June 21, 2004 – India
Total Post Views: 112,426

About

Head of antispam operations at Outblaze - a large email hosting and spam filtering provider that handles filters for over 76 million mailboxes.

Currently consulting for the ITU on a cybersecurity related field research project.

I am also Coordinator of APCAUCE (CAUCE Asia Pacific), a volunteer organization focused on antispam and cybersecurity initiatives in the asiapac region.

Assorted other details (including a longish list of articles in Wired, Businessweek, the WSJ etc) on my website.

Except where otherwise noted, all postings by Suresh Ramasubramanian on CircleID are licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Comments

Blacklisting Under Wrong Assumptions

80% of Spam Originating from Home PCs

Friction-Free Commerce, Spam-Free Future

Email Address Forgery

What the ITU WSIS Spam Meeting Accomplished

How to Stop Spam

Spam Volume Redux

How India's .IN Domain Rouses from its Slumber

The Ultimate Solution to Internet Governance: Let ITU and ICANN compete

In Pursuit of IDN Perfection?

More on Story Behind .ASIA

Port 25 Blocking, or Fix SMTP and Leave Port 25 Alone for the Sake of Spam?

Study Finds Spammers Use P2P Harvesting to Spam Millions

Phish-Proofing URLs in Email?

Could IP Addressing Benefit from the Introduction of Competitive Suppliers?

The Geography of Internet Addressing

IP Address Allocation vs. Internet Production I: Understanding the Relationship, and the Differences

Do We Really Need IDN?

Address Policies

Actions Required by Developing Economies Against Spam

An Infrastructure TLD: Avoiding the Side Effects of Today's .Net

Some Notes on the .XXX Top-Level Domain

ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society - Part III

The Internets

Working Group on Internet Governance Releases Report

News from the Authentication Summit in NYC

A Balkanized Internet Future?

Abusive Anti-Anti-Spam Scheme a Dreadful Strategy

IGP on Future U.S. Role in Internet Governance

SPF Loses Mindshare

Objections to .XXX, Attention in High Places

.XXX Puzzle Pieces Start to Come Together: And the Picture is Ugly

.XXX as Proposed is Wrong for Families & Kids

Whither DNS?

Sitefinder Writ Small

To Meow or not to Meow: .CAT TLD approved by ICANN

Should the Government Prepare a Preemptive Cyber-Attack?

If It's About to Break, Fix It!

Breaking the Internet HOWTO

Forgotten Principles of Internet Governance

When will we run out of IPv4?

Welcome to the Root, .MOBI

You Paid to Join; You Can Leave Anytime

Nom-Com Appoints Independent and Diverse Candidates to ICANN Leadership Positions

The U.N.'s Threat to the Net

Questioning the Illusion of Internet Governance

The WSIS Deal

WSIS Deal: Oversight

Five More Years! There Was No "Deal" and WSIS Resolved Nothing

Splitting the Root: It's Too Late

The Problem With Wikis

Europe is to the US Controlled GPS as Europe is to the US Controlled DNS Root?

IPv6: Extinction, Evolution or Revolution?

WIPO Crowing Again About "Cybersquatting"

AOL and Goodmail: Two Steps Back for Email

AOL and Goodmail: Two Steps Back for Email, Part II

Challenges in Anti-Spam Efforts

EFF on Goodmail: Further Confusing an Already Confused Issue

Internet Governance: An Antispam Perspective

What is Anti-Spam?

The Future of Some Email May Not Use Email

China's MII Publishes New Email Regulations

California Frets about Goodmail Email

Finding Good ICANN Board Candidates

Fighting Over the Scraps from ICANN's Table

Governments Need to Pass More Anti-Spam Laws, Says OECD

Wall Street Journal Article on Whois Privacy

EFF and Its Use of Propaganda: Could Karl Rove do better? Probably

Why ICANN Nominating Committee Has Difficulty Finding Directors

ITU Launches IDN Survey and ccTLD Outreach

Domain Tasting Target of US Federal Cybersquatting Lawsuit

Send a Message to NTIA

Conflict of Opinion

Microsoft Choking Domain Parking Business Practices?

74,000 .eu Domain Names Suspended, Registrars Accused of Stockpiling

Nominet Takes Action Against Domain Name Tasting

How Could the Internet be Governed: Perspective from Bulgaria

Will Splogs Kill .INFO Domains?

Why We Need to Find Solutions on Internet Governance As Soon As Possible

China Building Its Own IPv6, Reducing Country's Foreign Dependency

ICANN and the DOC

ICANN Ordered by Illinois Court to Suspend Spamhaus.org

Spamming the News Cycle: Spamhaus Non-Story Goes Viral

ICANN Board to Vote on Domain Tasting Measure

Release of IE7, Firefox 2.0 Will Drive Significant IDN Demand

Assault on State Censorship at the IGF

ITU Expressing Its Own Claim to Legitimacy

Domain Registrations Hit 112 Million

Europeans Moderate GAC Principles, But...

Domain Tasting in the Spotlight

Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets

EURid Tightens Control on .eu Domain Names

Entrepreneurs Profiting From Free Domains

Why I left the ICANN At Large Advisory Committee

Social Networking and Web 2.0 Creating DNS Performance Issues for Carriers

XXX Comes to a Head

ICANN Discussing Domain Registrar Crackdown

When Domain Names Aren't Enough

Vint Cerf on the Diminishing Novelty of Internet

ICANN's At-Large Process: Exit, Without Voice

Domain Speculation: Attack of the TechnoPinkos

IGF Preparatory Meeting: A Score Draw in Geneva

Discussion at the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva

The New Hong Kong Anti-Spam Law, and a Small Fly in the Ointment

Opt-In Permission for Mailing Lists: Is It Enough?

Petition Launched on YouChoose.net Against Domain Name Parking

Squeegee Domains