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Wired: Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/10/55795
A new breed of pop-up ads is appearing on Microsoft Windows users' computers. The so-called "Messenger spams" have security experts and system administrators scratching their heads and recipients fuming. |
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Wired: Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/02/50455
A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West. |
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The Age: The Plague - http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/11/1034222584907.html
On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and their nemesis, junk mail activists, will be fought out in a courtroom, where a landmark judgement is expected to influence the future of direct marketing over the Internet. |
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The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/29/where_the_heck_is_all/
The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago. |
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ZDNet Australia: Aussie spammer sues anti-spammer in world-first case - http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Aussie-spammer-sues-anti-spammer-in-world-first-case/0,130061791,120265640,00.htm
An alleged Australian spammer is suing an anti-spam advocate after being blacklisted by a spam prevention Web site, in what is believed to be a first of its kind case worldwide and one that could end up "bigger than Ben Hur", according to a source close to the proceedings. |
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CNET: Spammers slipping ads through Windows - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-962483.html
Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft's Windows operating systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements on Internet-connected computers. |
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CNET.com: Is your e-mail watching you? - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-875992.html
Watch out--the spam choking your e-mail in-box may be loaded with software that lets marketers track your moves online, and you may not even be aware that you've been bugged. |
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Wired: FTC: Where Spam Goes to Die - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/11/55972
The FTC now has the most complete spam database in the world, a collection of over 20 million missives containing the solutions to all human wants and woes. |
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CNET.com: Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-871730.html
Some Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices, comparing the company's revised policy to an open invitation to spam. |
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Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/10/56017
Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam. |
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CNET.com: EU body pushes spam guidelines - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-930019.html
The European Parliament has signed off on sweeping guidelines for Internet regulation, including prohibiting spam and the use of cookies without the explicit permission from Web surfers. |
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CNET.com: Spam suit rings on Sprint - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-947736.html
Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages, or spam, in violation of a recently enacted state statute. |
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CNET.com: Congress, critics wrinkle noses at spam bills - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-257941.html
Spam may be an unwanted staple in your in-box, but don't expect lawmakers to serve up new regulations anytime soon. |
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Wired: Archive: Fresh Spam for Everyone - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2002/11/56624
Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam? A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you to download today. |
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The Register: Anti-spam filters kill legitimate emails - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/29/antispam_filters_kill_legitimate_emails/
Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails. |
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BBC News: Nigeria grapples with e-mail scams - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1944801.stm
The Nigerian authorities declare war on the growing of number of fraudsters who use cyber cafes to send out phoney e-mails. |
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CNET.com: Spam filter a career killer? - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-946952.html
A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? |
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The Age: The dangers of spam SMS - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/05/1017206260399.html
You can get paid to receive ads on your mobile, but it might burst the spam dam, writes Nicole Manktelow. |
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The Register: Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/07/hotmail_yahoo_erect_roadblocks/
Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam. |
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CNET.com: Public access to FTC hurt by spam lists - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-975473.html
When Josh Tinnin tried to send e-mail to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this month, he received an unwelcome surprise: He couldn't. |
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Wired: No Easy Money Suing Spammers - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/10/55927
When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for Senate campaign last month for sending him spam, it wasn't money that motivated him. |
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CNET.com: Free speech or campaign spam? - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-851126.html
California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to spam. |
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CNET.com: Anti-spam Group Bocks Yahoo Stores - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-956191.html
An anti-spam group has put Yahoo's storefronts on its list of suspected junk e-mailers, snarling attempts by some customers to access the storefronts. |
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CNET.com: AOL awarded millions in spam case - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-978019.html
A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail operation, AOL said Monday. |
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BBC News: Hotmail puts squeeze on spam - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2268680.stm
Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address. |
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CNET.com: Surviving in spam's shadow - http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082-937778.html
For Janine Popick, spam is a four-letter word. |
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smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/26/1027497416227.html
Green describes these electronic messages as "a little ray of sunshine". It irritates him that some of the recipients can't see the light. They regard Green's sunshine as spam, get mad as hell, and send him responses that are "threatening, abusive, filthy-minded, arrogant, quite offensive, and when you consider what I've sent out is philosophical, enlightening and positive, I guess they are not ready for it". |
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BBC News: Getting Tough On Spam - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1979761.stm
Unsolicited e-mail is becoming a problem for users and internet service providers. |
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BBC: Spam poses threat to privacy - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2330823.stm
Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam. |
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Wired: E-Marketers Rue Address Turnover - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/11/56049
Thirty-one percent of Americans change e-mail addresses each year, in part to evade spammers, according to a new study. |
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PCWorld.com: Verio Tries to Get Monkeys.com Off Its Back - http://www.pcworld.com/article/103197/verio_tries_to_get_monkeyscom_off_its_back.html
Web-hosting company won its battle against an antispam activist, but the war is far from over. |
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SF Gate: Spam attacks growing - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/15/BU224200.DTL
According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 million last month. |
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Computerworld: Study: Amount of spam, virus-infected e-mails rising - http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,75135,00.html
A new report analyzing e-mail messages sent last month found that the problem of viruses and unsolicited e-mail continued to grow, hitting manufacturing, banking and finance, and health care particularly hard. |
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Computerworld: Verizon settles lawsuit against spammer - http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,75499,00.html
The owner of a Detroit-based commercial e-mail company has agreed to a permanent injunction barring him from sending spam to customers of Verizon Online, a unit of Verizon Communications. |
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CNET.com: Marketing group scrapes off spam label - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-822053.html
The Direct Marketing Association has created mandatory ground rules for members sending sales pitches via e-mail, a move designed to help avoid a government crackdown on commercial messages. |
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CNET: Spam doesn't kill appetite for e-mail - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-976399.html
Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for e-mail among U.S. workers, according to a new study on e-mail use in the workplace. |
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CNET.com: Anti-spam service battles bugs - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-938103.html
A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail. |
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CNET.com: If it's spam, the message is "delete" - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-955806.html
When Emily Sachar got back from vacation recently, she had an e-mail inbox full of hundreds of messages. Unfortunately, most of them were spam. |
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CNET: Fat times for spam - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-962300.html
In September, more than 17 percent of all e-mail traveling across the Internet could be classified as spam, according to data collected by UK e-mail service provider MessageLabs. The company's figures are presented in its latest monthly report. |
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CNET.com: Start-up wants your help to fight spam - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-937300.html
Ordinary Web surfers could play a major role in stemming the rising tide of junk e-mail crippling the Net, if a new anti-spam company hits its mark. |
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CNET.com: You've got spam, and more spam - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-955842.html
Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography, money-making schemes and health products, and there's little relief on the horizon. |
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CNET.com: Groups seek federal action on spam - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-956502.html
Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups said Wednesday. |
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CNET: Spam: It's more than bulk e-mail - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-961134.html
Consumers are increasingly applying the stigma of spam to marketing messages of all stripes, causing headaches for legitimate advertisers on the Web and beyond. |
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Wired: Candidate: Spam in Every Pot - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/03/50761
A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of California, one of the few states with an anti-spam law, isn't campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- he's sending it. Bill Jones' campaign sent out thousands of unsolicited e-mails this week, urging California voters to vote for Jones next Tuesday. According to posts in newsgroups and discussion lists, Jones has spammed twice before, once in December and once in January. |
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Wired: China Sweet, Sour on Spam - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/03/50856
Delegates at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress roundly criticized Western systems administrators that are blocking all e-mail from China as a means to stop spam, but they also called for new laws to make sending spam illegal in China. |
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Wired: Spam Showdown at Battle Creek - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/03/51218
The small city of Battle Creek, Michigan, wants to lock up an anti-spam activist who it believes crashed its mail server. Never mind that the town government was using a buggy version of the Lotus Domino e-mail server, and that newer releases have fixed the problem. And never mind that anti-spammers may have been conducting a routine scan for possible sources of bulk e-mail. |
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Wired: Amy Grant Spams a Sour Note - http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52435
Jesus preached the gospel of turning the other cheek, but what would he have said about spam? |
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Wired: The Law Is Going After Spam - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/04/51486
Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues of the information age -- are getting stepped-up attention from federal and state agencies that say more joint effort from law enforcement groups is needed to curb the scourge that is online swindling. |
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Wired: Liverpool: I Wanna Hold Your Spam - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/07/53868
A woman in a major British media company recently contacted the company's entire, 30,000-strong staff with an urgent query: "Has anyone got any blu-tack?" |
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Wired: Sprint Calls Audible in Spam Suit - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/08/54250
A lawsuit charging Sprint with sending illegal, unsolicited e-mail appears to be turning into a test case for how much evidence a company can recover when defending against allegations of wrongful spamming. |
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Instant Messaging Planet: Mobile Spam Banned in Calif. - http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/wireless/article.php/10766_1467401
Governor Gray Davis signs a bill that will prohibit the sending of spam to mobile phones and pagers starting next year. |
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PCWorld.com: Spammers Claim Rights, Too - http://www.pcworld.com/article/101610/spammers_claim_rights_too.html
Opt-In Marketing Services challenges antispam efforts, organizations in court. |
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Slashdot: Australian Spammer Sues Back - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/30/2011249
We've all heard the one about the spammers begin sued. Now, an Ausie spammer is suing back, for being blacklisted. Claiming damages and equipment replacement costs and so on. The whole article is over at Yahoo. So, I guess now, not only are we subjected to the spam, but we can't block it either? |
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Slashdot: As the Spam Turns - http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/17/2339233
The SBL has added Verio's corporate mail servers to its blocklist which protects nearly 100 million mailboxes, because of the number of spam gangs on the Verio network. Verio also provides connectivity to AS26212, a collection of 9 of the most notorious spammers netblocks. AS26212 is also connected to he.net and bbnplanet.net. |
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Computerworld: Spam: Arriving en masse to an e-mail address near you - http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,75348,00.html
Shifting from daily nuisance to serious IT and business concern, uncontrolled spam is prompting customers to arm themselves with tools to fight back against productivity loss, potential liability and bandwidth-clogging consequences that unsolicited commercial e-mail can bring to an enterprise. |
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The Age: E-mail users want spam off the menu - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/16/1034561210642.html
Spam, spam, spam, spam! In Monty Python's day, it was comical, but today the unavoidable excess of spam has gone way beyond a joke. |
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SF Gate: Spam indigestion worsens - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/09/BU243115.DTL&type=tech
So I get back after taking a week off and find my office e-mail basket spilling over with more than 700 messages. Several dozen were legitimate missives from readers and whatnot, and the rest . . . well, you know where I'm going with this. |
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andersja: Spam, Hype and SpamAssassin - http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/10/16/spam_hype_and_spamassassin.html
An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin. |
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NewsFactor: Spam Versus Technology: The Battle Rages On - http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19319.html
One difficulty in stopping spammers is that some of their ploys work. If no one believed the story of the deposed, rich prince and others like it, much spam would cease. |
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San Francisco Chronicle: Spam stampede clogs Internet - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/08/MN137044.DTL
Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet. |
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The Age: Spam, the plague giving the Net indigestion - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/01/1028157817675.html
If you already get too much junk e-mail, you'll get twice as much by New Year - and at the moment there is little anyone can do to stop it. No wonder consumers rate it their worst computer problem. |
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Computerworld: Search goes on for ways to stop spam - http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,72088,00.html
At a Global Internet Project conference today, IT and government officials looked at ways to counter the spreading nuisance of unwanted e-mail. |
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Telepolis: European Parliament to come to crucial vote on spam - http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/12603/1.html
"Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs" asks European Parliament to force the floodgates wide open for spam. |
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Washington Post: E-Mail Opens New Door For Familiar Scam Tactic - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64335-2002Apr28
The get-rich-quick con, dubbed the "Nigerian Letter Scam" by authorities, was operated out of Toronto and Nigeria from 1994 to 2000 and swindled more than 300 people, including about 20 in the Washington area, out of approximately $20 million, according to law enforcement officials. |
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donga.com: Compulsory Notice of `Adult Advertisement` for Sexual Spam Mails - http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2002050862048
The advertising mails containing bad things for juveniles like sexual and violent contents should attach the notice of `Ads for Adults` to the title from July. |
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ZDNet Australia: Govt struggling with spam: Alston - http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Govt-struggling-with-spam-Alston/0,139023166,120270274,00.htm
The federal government has issued its strongest indication yet it is unlikely to undertake decisive measures to combat the welter of spam plaguing Australia's e-mail inboxes. |
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ZDNet Australia: Spam headaches bring more pain - http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/Spam-headaches-bring-more-pain/0,139023166,120270698,00.htm
In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive. |
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The Register: AOL wins $7m in porn spam case - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12/17/aol_wins_7m_in_porn/
AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam. |
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Internetnews: FTC Plans Crackdown on 9-11 Spam - http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=987501
"Spam is one of the Internet's dirty little secrets, and it's bad enough when your mom gets targeted with porn stuff and get-rich quick schemes. But the people who prey on the public selling worthless products related to the events of Sept. 11 are among the lowest of the low." |
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Internetnews: FTC to Pursue Deceptive E-mail Advertisers - http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=967151
The Federal Trade Commission is planning to announce a series of actions against suspected spammers in coming weeks. |
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USA Today: E-mail avalanche even buries CEOs Take some tips from harried chief executives who are drowning in it - http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2002/01/04/usatcov-email.htm
In the three seconds it takes to read this sentence, more than a half-million e-mails will land in in-boxes. By 2005, nearly that many will land each second. The e-mail avalanche knows no rank. |
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ABCNEWS.com: New Ways to Can Spam E-mail - http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97504
New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks. |
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Computerworld: Spam Wars - http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,75737,00.html
In the past year, spam has moved beyond personal e-mail accounts, invading business systems and graduating from societal pest to corporate enemy. |
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Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal - http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_973481
The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed. |
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E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam - http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_988971
The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday. |
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Newsfactor: How To Shut Down Spam - http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20005.html
Don't ever click on a remove link to remove your e-mail address from a list. |
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Newsfactor: Fighting Spam: Legislation Won't Work - http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20344.html
Passing anti-spam legislation, while perhaps well intended, is like passing a law against rain. Words on paper won't stop it. |
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Newsfactor: The Unstoppable Flood of Spam - http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19803.html
After remaining neutral for some time, the Direct Marketing Association announced last week that it will support U.S. state and federal legislation aimed at curtailing spam. |
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atnewyork.com: Spam Expected to Outnumber Non-Spam - http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1555831
More than 30 percent of all e-mail is unsolicited and MessageLabs predicts that spam will continue its exponential growth into 2003, surpassing the amount of non-spam e-mail by around July. |
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globetechnology.com: Spam slammed in survey - http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20021202/gtspammy/Technology/techBN/
People who get hysterical over the spam they find in their inboxes have good reason to be upset, Symantec Corp. says. |