Slashdot: As the Spam Turns
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. (November 17, 2002)
Newsfactor: How To Shut Down Spam
Don't ever click on a remove link to remove your e-mail address from a list. (November 15, 2002)
Wired: E-Marketers Rue Address Turnover
Thirty-one percent of Americans change e-mail addresses each year, in part to evade spammers, according to a new study. (November 12, 2002)
Computerworld: Spam Wars
In the past year, spam has moved beyond personal e-mail accounts, invading business systems and graduating from societal pest to corporate enemy. (November 11, 2002)
Wired: FTC: Where Spam Goes to Die
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. (November 5, 2002)
Computerworld: Verizon settles lawsuit against spammer
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. (October 30, 2002)
The Detroit News: Spam king, Verizon settle lawsuit
W. Bloomfield man's deal with Internet service limits his reach, but he vows to stay in business. (October 29, 2002)
Newsfactor: The Unstoppable Flood of Spam
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. (October 29, 2002)
Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs
Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam. (October 26, 2002)
CBC News: Anti-spam laws needed in Canada: telemarketing org.
The head of the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) is calling for legislation to protect consumers from unsolicited e-mail, or "spam." (October 24, 2002)
Computerworld: Spam: Arriving en masse to an e-mail address near you
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. (October 24, 2002)
Wired: No Easy Money Suing Spammers
When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for Senate campaign last month for sending him spam, it wasn't money that motivated him. (October 24, 2002)
CNET: Spammers slipping ads through Windows
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. (October 17, 2002)
The Age: E-mail users want spam off the menu
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. (October 16, 2002)
andersja: Spam, Hype and SpamAssassin
An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin. (October 16, 2002)
BBC: Spam poses threat to privacy
Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam. (October 16, 2002)
CNET: Fat times for spam
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. (October 16, 2002)
Computerworld: Study: Amount of spam, virus-infected e-mails rising
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. (October 15, 2002)
Wired: Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts
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. (October 15, 2002)
The Age: The Plague
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. (October 11, 2002)
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