Newsfactor: Fighting Spam: Legislation Won't Work
Passing anti-spam legislation, while perhaps well intended, is like passing a law against rain. Words on paper won't stop it. (December 30, 2002)
The Register: Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons
Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam. (December 27, 2002)
Washington Post: Powered by . . . Spam?
How mass e-mail ads fueled a holiday gift craze. (December 21, 2002)
The Register: AOL wins $7m in porn spam case
AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam. (December 17, 2002)
BBC News: The web bites back
Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use. (December 16, 2002)
CNET.com: AOL awarded millions in spam case
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. (December 16, 2002)
ZDNet Australia: Spam headaches bring more pain
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. (December 16, 2002)
Detroit Free Press: Behind the scenes, spam's even uglier
Bloomfield Township spam artist Alan Ralsky is in the midst of yet another controversy, this time involving an anti-spam activist who says someone left him threatening telephone messages after he took photos of Ralsky's brand-new $740,000 house. (December 13, 2002)
atnewyork.com: Spam Expected to Outnumber Non-Spam
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. (December 12, 2002)
BBC News: US workers spared junk e-mails
Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US workers, despite the growing number of junk e-mails promoting get-rich-quick scams or pornographic websites, says a report. (December 9, 2002)
CNET: Spam doesn't kill appetite for e-mail
Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for e-mail among U.S. workers, according to a new study on e-mail use in the workplace. (December 8, 2002)
Detroit Free Press: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out
West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine. (December 6, 2002)
Christian Science Monitor: 'White lists' emerge as a tool for consumers in fight against spam
Americans are discovering that the broad effort to fight spam can backfire. (December 2, 2002)
globetechnology.com: Spam slammed in survey
People who get hysterical over the spam they find in their inboxes have good reason to be upset, Symantec Corp. says. (December 2, 2002)
The Miami Herald: Spamming for a living
She moved her cursor to the "send" icon and clicked. "It's that simple," Laura Betterly said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She had just dispatched e-mail messages to 500,000 strangers. (December 2, 2002)
The Register: Anti-spam filters kill legitimate emails
Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails. (November 29, 2002)
ZDNet Australia: Govt struggling with spam: Alston
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. (November 28, 2002)
Wired: Archive: Fresh Spam for Everyone
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. (November 27, 2002)
CNET.com: Public access to FTC hurt by spam lists
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. (November 26, 2002)
The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from?
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. (November 25, 2002)
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