SAN FRANCISCO, CA - January 25, 2005 - The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) announced today the addition of two new sponsors for their 2nd Annual "Spam and the Law" conference, which is being held at the Westin Hotel at San Francisco airport on Friday, January 28, 2005.

"We are thrilled to have both Cloudmark and Go Daddy join us as sponsors this year," said Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., President of the Institute. "The caliber of our sponsors and speakers just continues to amaze me, and our attendees couldn't hope for a better set of experts to bring them up-to-date."

Approximately one hundred industry professionals will be meeting in San Francisco to attend the day-long single-track conference, where they will learn about the current state of the law as it relates to both sending and receiving email, as well as about trends and methods for dealing with spam and email deliverability.

"We have a really wonderful group of speakers this year," said Mitchell. "There is something for everyone, whether email marketer, ISP, spam filter, or industry attorney. In fact, we have speakers from each of those groups."

This year's conference has attracted such noted speakers as Danny Goodman - author of "Spam Wars", FTC Attorney Lisa Rosenthal, Dr. Phyllis Schneck - VP of Strategic Development for Ciphertrust, Tom Kulzer of Aweber, Microsoft Internet Safety Enforcement Attorney Aaron Kornblum, Joe Tyler - President of Informz Email Marketing Solutions, and California Deputy Attorney General Ian Sweedler.

"GoDaddy.com is aggressive and relentless in combating spam through our specific business practices, as well as participating in industry-wide initiatives," said Ben Butler, Network Abuse Manager for Internet domain registrar GoDaddy.com. "We'rere proud to sponsor the second annual Spam and the Law conference and warmly welcome all presenters and participants. The information, ideas and initiatives this conference provides will surely help all of us to better focus our efforts on combating the scourge of spam."

"Enforcement is a critical component of any approach to effectively contain spam," said conference speaker Aaron Kornblum, Microsoft's Internet Safety Enforcement Attorney. "Enforcement complements technological solutions, such as enhancements to spam filters and email authentication technologies like Sender ID, strong and effective legislation, industry cooperation and global consumer education."

Added conference sponsor and speaker Tom Kulzer, of Aweber, "By sponsoring ISIPP's "Spam and the Law" conference AWeber hopes to help educate and spread the usage of responsible opt-in email practices by small businesses."