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Are you a James Bond movies fan? If not I need to add some a few more words. “From Russia with Love ” is one of the popular Bond movies starring Sean Connery. His has been sent to a secret mission in Turkey in this episode.

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

But this article is not about James Bond and spy movies. It is about spamming.

Russian SPAM has become one of the most dangerous ones flooding your e-mail box. From ordinary advertising to different virus definitions it

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

harms everyones mailbox and takes a lot of your time and ISP’s resources.

“Our business email address is being flooded by Russian spam, despite being filtered through SpamCop.net first. I can’t report the spam using WebMai

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

l as the messages are forwarded to our mail server, so the offending messages do not stay on the server. I have now started reporting the spam through my own “attachment forwarding” SpamCop account, but it still keeps comin

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

g”, posts Martin in a popular web forum.

A question to follow is “Why does this Russian spam keep coming?”. One of the possible answers is to do DNS blacklists and to adjust your SpamAssassin (if you have one installed) th

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

reshold downwards. You can change these settings in Options –> SpamCop Tools –> Select your email filtering blacklists.

I can read and understand Russian even I have nothing to do with this country. But Martin can’t. So he

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

asks a good question “Can’t I just say I want no Russian language mail? I can’t read it anyway”.

The answer is “You can say it, but right now there is no way to implement it from within SpamCop.”

Another forum user write

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

s “I also get a lot of Russian spam and have all of the BL’s selected. The problem is that it comes for too many different IP’s”. I can only add here that even if you blacklist all russian IP’s you will still continue recei

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ving Russian SPAM. The simple reason is that most spamming messages come from United States IP addresses. American ISP’s have very strict TOS about spamming but hey can not block all IP’s.

Four years ago in 2002, a US rese

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

archers from Center for Democracy and Technology found that e-mail addresses posted on websites or in newsgroups attract the most spam. They estimated that up to 40% of global e-mail traffic is caused by spamming messages b

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ringing headache for businesses, which are losing billions in productivity.

eWeek says that 86 % of spam sent to enterprises between May and July 2004 came from U.S. spammers, according to a survey by CipherTrust Inc. It s

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ampled about 5 million pieces of spam sent to 1,000 e-mail boxes. Just 3 % of spam came from China and Hong Kong!

According to InternetWeek.com, “most of the spam sent across the Internet originated on zombie machines, hij

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

acked computers remotely controlled by spammers.” Zombies, people! The Walking Undead! It sounds like a horror movie isn’t it?

But let’s get back to Russians. Here’s another post about Russian spam

“What’s the story with

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

all the Russian spam of late? What is it that the Russians are trying to sell me? Do Russians worry about tiny penises? Do they play Texas Hold-Em online? Do they buy fake Rolexes? Do they like “dirty barnyard girls in all

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

animal sex videos”?

I sure hope not. I’ve been using gmail for almost a year now and I love it. It’s spam filter is fantastic. You’d think they’d figure out by now that any email I receive in Russian belongs in the spam bi

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

n instead of my inbox.”

Someone who pissed off of “Russians with fake Rolexes” posted some advices of fighting Russian spam. Here they are:

For a quicker way of reporting a lot of foreign language spam (or any spam for th

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

at matter) that has been forwarded to your local inbox try the following:

- Set up IMAP as a separate link to your held mail.

- Clear out (delete) all mail in the held mail folder (you can skip this step if you want)

- M

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ove all the foreign language spam from your local inbox to your IMAP SpamCop Held mail folder (click and drag). It takes it off your local machine and moves it back to the SpamCop server. No need to forward as attachment.

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

- Then log into either the VER interface Held Mail or log into Web Mail and select the Held Mail folder

- Select all or only those specific messages you want to report.

- VER gives you the option of quick reporting or ful

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

l reporting

- WebMail only allows for quick reporting.

Hope this story will help to fight against Russian SPAM. If not you have at least 2 more choices - to start learning Russian language or to close your e-mail account.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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