New regulations require the word 'AD' be displayed and for ISPs to retain mail server IP addresses for 60 days China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has published a set of regulations that govern e-mail services and include several provisions intended to cut down on the amount of spam that Chinese Internet users find in their in-box.The new rules go into effect on March 30.As expected, the regulations require e-mail advertisements to include “AD” or the equivalent in Chinese characters (guang gao) in the subject header. They also require e-mail service providers to register the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of their mail servers with the authorities. Other provisions include a requirement for e-mail service providers to keep logs of e-mail traffic, including the IP addresses of all e-mail senders and recipients, for 60 days.Service providers that violate the new regulations can be fined up to 30,000 renminbi ($3,729).The e-mail regulations, in Chinese, can be found on the Web site of the Internet Society of China’s Anti-Spam Center: https://www.anti-spam.cn/doc/glbf.doc. SecurityTechnology IndustryCareersSoftware DevelopmentMalware