2002 News and Media Spam E-mail

In a victory to thrill anyone annoyed by the "spam" that clogs e-mail accounts, an appellate court has upheld the constitutionality of California's tough 1998 law regulating unwanted commercial messages.

• 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.
• Internetnews: FTC Plans Crackdown on 9-11 Spam - "Spam is one of the Internet\\'s dirty little 2002 secrets, and it\\'s bad enough when your mom 2002 gets targeted with porn stuff and get-rich quick 2002 schemes. But the people who prey on the 2002 public selling worthless products related to the events 2002 of Sept. 11 are am
• BBC News: Nigeria grapples with e-mail scams - The Nigerian authorities declare war on the growing of number of fraudsters who use cyber cafes to send out phoney e-mails.
• CNET.com: EU body pushes spam guidelines - The European Parliament has signed off on sweeping spam guidelines for Internet regulation, including prohibiting spam and spam the use of cookies without the explicit permission spam from Web surfers.
• 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.
• CNET.com: Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch - Some Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to news and media news and media changes in the Web portal\\'s e-mail marketing practices, news and media news and media comparing the company\\'s revised policy to an open news and media news and media invitation to spam.
• 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.
• BBC News: Getting Tough On Spam - Unsolicited e-mail is becoming a problem for users and internet 2002 service providers.
• Wired: China Sweet, Sour on Spam - Delegates at the annual meeting of China\\'s National spam People\\'s Congress 2002 roundly criticized Western systems administrators that spam are blocking all e-mail 2002 from China as a spam means to stop spam, but they 2002 also called spam for new laws to make sending spam illegal 2002 spam in Chin
• Washington Post: E-Mail Opens New Door For Familiar Scam Tactic - The get-rich-quick con, dubbed the "Nigerian Letter Scam" by authorities, 2002 was operated out of Toronto and Nigeria from 1994 to 2002 2000 and swindled more than 300 people, including about 20 2002 in the Washington area, out of approximately $20 million, a
• Wired: Sprint Calls Audible in Spam Suit - A lawsuit charging Sprint with sending illegal, unsolicited spam e-mail appears 2002 to be turning into a test spam case for how much 2002 evidence a company can spam recover when defending against allegations of 2002 wrongful spamming.
• 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.
• Computerworld: Spam Wars - In the past year, spam has moved beyond 2002 personal e-mail news and media accounts, invading business systems and graduating 2002 from societal pest to news and media corporate enemy.
• CNET.com: If it's spam, the message is "delete" - When Emily Sachar got back from vacation recently, spam she had an e-mail inbox full of hundreds spam of messages. Unfortunately, most of them were spam.
• Washington Post: 'Résumé Spamming' Brings an Online Backlash - Already frustrated by unwanted sales pitches and suggestive 2002 come-ons, e-mail 2002 users now face another onslaught, this 2002 time from desperate job 2002 seekers.
• CNET: Spam: It's more than bulk e-mail - Consumers are increasingly applying the stigma of spam spam to marketing messages of all stripes, causing headaches spam for legitimate advertisers on the Web and beyond.
• USA Today: E-mail avalanche even buries CEOs Take some tips from harried chief executives who are drowning in it - In the three seconds it takes to read this sentence, spam more than a half-million e-mails will land in in-boxes. By spam 2005, nearly that many will land each second. The e-mail spam avalanche knows no rank.
• Slashdot: Australian Spammer Sues Back - We\\'ve all heard the one about the spammers spam begin sued. 2002 Now, an Ausie spammer is suing spam back, for being blacklisted. 2002 Claiming damages and equipment spam replacement costs and so on. The 2002 whole article spam is over at Yahoo. So, I guess now, 2002 spam not only are we subjected t
• Instant Messaging Planet: Mobile Spam Banned in Calif. - Governor Gray Davis signs a bill that will spam prohibit the 2002 sending of spam to mobile phones spam and pagers starting next 2002 year.
• San Francisco Chronicle: Court upholds anti-spam law / Unsolicited e-mail not protected, judges say - In a victory to thrill anyone annoyed by the "spam" 2002 that clogs e-mail accounts, an appellate court has upheld the 2002 constitutionality of California\'s tough 1998 law regulating unwanted commercial messages.
• CNET.com: Consumer groups fight spam epidemic - A coalition of consumer groups plans to ask news and media spam the federal government to rescue people from the news and media spam deluge of unwanted commercial mail that clogs their news and media spam inboxes and sucks up their time.
• BBC News: The web bites back - Protesters are turning the tables on government officials 2002 and businessmen 2002 who they say are making the 2002 web less pleasant to 2002 use.
• CNET.com: Anti-spam service battles bugs - A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare 2002 this week is facing some technical hurdles out 2002 of the gate and frustration from the community 2002 it relies on to fight junk mail.
• CNET.com: Is your e-mail watching you? - 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.
• Telepolis: European Parliament to come to crucial vote on spam - "Committee on Citizens\\' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and 2002 Home Affairs" 2002 asks European Parliament to force the 2002 floodgates wide open for 2002 spam.
• Computerworld: Study: Amount of spam, virus-infected e-mails rising - A new report analyzing e-mail messages sent last 2002 month found news and media that the problem of viruses and 2002 unsolicited e-mail continued to news and media grow, hitting manufacturing, banking 2002 and finance, and health care particularly news and media hard.
• Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal - The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
• Wired: No Easy Money Suing Spammers - When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for spam Senate campaign news and media last month for sending him spam, spam it wasn\'t money that news and media motivated him.
• CNET: Fat times for spam - In September, more than 17 percent of all 2002 e-mail traveling spam across the Internet could be classified 2002 as spam, according to spam data collected by UK 2002 e-mail service provider MessageLabs. The company\\'s spam figures are 2002 presented in its latest monthly report.
• CNET: Spam doesn't kill appetite for e-mail - Spam hasn\\'t killed enthusiasm for e-mail among U.S. 2002 workers, according to a new study on e-mail 2002 use in the workplace.
• BBC News: US workers spared junk e-mails - Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US 2002 workers, despite spam the growing number of junk e-mails 2002 promoting get-rich-quick scams or spam pornographic websites, says a 2002 report.
• CNET.com: AOL awarded millions in spam case - A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly spam $7 million 2002 in damages as part of the spam Internet service providers\\' legal 2002 victory over a junk spam e-mail operation, AOL said Monday.
• The Age: The Plague - On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and spam their nemesis, junk mail activists, will be fought out in spam a courtroom, where a landmark judgement is expected to influence spam the future of direct marketing over the Internet.
• CNET.com: Groups seek federal action on spam - Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that 2002 the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch 2002 the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups said Wednesday.
• Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs - Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of 2002 weblogs spam have recently noticed that their referral 2002 logs have become the spam newest target for spam.
• donga.com: Spam Mail with False Title to be Punished - The person who sends e-mails without an indication news and media of advertisement or containing false exaggerated ads will news and media be punished of suspension of business license or news and media criminal punishment from May.
• SF Gate: Spam attacks growing - According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail news and media news and media the rate of unique spam attacks measured by news and media news and media the company\\'s network of decoy addresses has increased news and media news and media more than five-fold during the past year -- news and media news and media from less than a million in June 2001 news and media news and media to more than 4.8 mill
• Wired: The Law Is Going After Spam - Spam and Internet fraud -- the twin plagues news and media spam of the information age -- are getting stepped-up news and media spam attention from federal and state agencies that say news and media spam more joint effort from law enforcement groups is news and media spam needed to curb the scourge that is online news and media spam swindling.
• CNET.com: Marketing group scrapes off spam label - The Direct Marketing Association has created mandatory ground news and media spam rules for members sending sales pitches via e-mail, news and media spam a move designed to help avoid a government news and media spam crackdown on commercial messages.
• Wired: Spam Showdown at Battle Creek - The small city of Battle Creek, Michigan, wants spam to lock spam up an anti-spam activist who it spam believes crashed its mail spam server. Never mind that spam the town government was using a spam buggy version spam of the Lotus Domino e-mail server, and that spam spam newer releases have fixed t
• Wired: Amy Grant Spams a Sour Note - Jesus preached the gospel of turning the other cheek, but news and media what would he have said about spam?
• The Register: AOL wins $7m in porn spam case - AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its news and media punters had been bombarded with porn spam.
• BBC News: Hotmail puts squeeze on spam - Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount 2002 of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address.
• PCWorld.com: Spammers Claim Rights, Too - Opt-In Marketing Services challenges antispam efforts, organizations in court.
• CNET.com: Surviving in spam's shadow - For Janine Popick, spam is a four-letter word.
• CNET.com: Start-up wants your help to fight spam - Ordinary Web surfers could play a major role news and media news and media in stemming the rising tide of junk e-mail news and media news and media crippling the Net, if a new anti-spam company news and media news and media hits its mark.
• CNET.com: Anti-spam Group Bocks Yahoo Stores - An anti-spam group has put Yahoo\\'s storefronts on news and media spam its list of suspected junk e-mailers, snarling attempts news and media spam by some customers to access the storefronts.
• ZDNet Australia: Spam headaches bring more pain - In the days before Christmas the amount of spam spam e-mail news and media being sent and received looks set spam to soar as marketing news and media machines and e-greetings firms spam go into seasonal overdrive.
• CNET.com: You've got spam, and more spam - Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail 2002 pitches for 2002 pornography, money-making schemes and health products, 2002 and there\'s little relief 2002 on the horizon.
• BBC: Spam poses threat to privacy - Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on news and media news and media spam.
• 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.
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Deceptive chain e-mails targeted - FTC goes after spam purveyors who peddle dubious news and media schemes.
• Christian Science Monitor: War on e-mail spam ratchets up in courts, legislatures | csmonitor.com - A lawsuit against spam on the Internet is part of news and media a larger effort to control the proliferation of unsolicited e-mail.
• The Age: The dangers of spam SMS - You can get paid to receive ads on your mobile, spam but it might burst the spam dam, writes Nicole Manktelow.
• 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.
• SF Gate: Spam indigestion worsens - So I get back after taking a week spam off and find my office e-mail basket spilling spam over with more than 700 messages. Several dozen spam were legitimate missives from readers and whatnot, and spam the rest . . . well, you know spam where I'm going with this.
• Computerworld: Search goes on for ways to stop spam - At a Global Internet Project conference today, IT and government spam officials looked at ways to counter the spreading nuisance of spam unwanted e-mail.
• Wired: Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts - A new breed of pop-up ads is appearing on news and media Microsoft Windows users\\' computers. The so-called "Messenger spams" have security news and media experts and system administrators scratching their heads and recipients fuming.
• CNET.com: Spam suit rings on Sprint - Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah news and media 2002 alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages, or news and media 2002 spam, in violation of a recently enacted state news and media 2002 statute.
• PCWorld.com: Verio Tries to Get Monkeys.com Off Its Back - Web-hosting company won its battle against an antispam activist, but news and media the war is far from over.
• CNET.com: Congress, critics wrinkle noses at spam bills - Spam may be an unwanted staple in your news and media 2002 in-box, but don\\'t expect lawmakers to serve up news and media 2002 new regulations anytime soon.
• E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam - The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown news and media 2002 of a Web site owned by a European news and media 2002 spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million news and media 2002 from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday.
• BBC News: Why one spam could cost $50 - A US law firm has become the hero of the 2002 common people for its decision to take on the spam 2002 merchants who wage guerrilla warfare on our e-mail inboxes, offering 2002 everything from sex to cars and easy money to psychic 2002 readings.
• CNET: Spammers slipping ads through Windows - Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft\\'s Windows operating 2002 systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements 2002 on Internet-connected computers.
• Computerworld: Verizon settles lawsuit against spammer - The owner of a Detroit-based commercial e-mail company news and media spam has agreed to a permanent injunction barring him news and media spam from sending spam to customers of Verizon Online, news and media spam a unit of Verizon Communications.
• ZDNet Australia: Govt struggling with spam: Alston - The federal government has issued its strongest indication spam yet it is unlikely to undertake decisive measures spam to combat the welter of spam plaguing Australia\'s spam e-mail inboxes.
• 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.
• The Age: Spam, the plague giving the Net indigestion - If you already get too much junk e-mail, you\\'ll get news and media twice as much by New Year - and at the news and media moment there is little anyone can do to stop it. news and media No wonder consumers rate it their worst computer problem.
• atnewyork.com: Spam Expected to Outnumber Non-Spam - More than 30 percent of all e-mail is 2002 unsolicited and news and media MessageLabs predicts that spam will continue 2002 its exponential growth into news and media 2003, surpassing the amount 2002 of non-spam e-mail by around July.
• CNET.com: Spam filter a career killer? - A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious news and media 2002 letter from a lover, or the daily tally news and media 2002 from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would news and media 2002 you read first?
• Wired: Liverpool: I Wanna Hold Your Spam - A woman in a major British media company 2002 recently contacted spam the company\\'s entire, 30,000-strong staff with 2002 an urgent query: "Has spam anyone got any blu-tack?"
• Christian Science Monitor: 'White lists' emerge as a tool for consumers in fight against spam - Americans are discovering that the broad effort to news and media news and media fight spam can backfire.
• ZDNet Australia: Aussie spammer sues anti-spammer in world-first case - 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 sour
• Computerworld: Spam: Arriving en masse to an e-mail address near you - Shifting from daily nuisance to serious IT and news and media spam business concern, uncontrolled spam is prompting customers to news and media spam arm themselves with tools to fight back against news and media spam productivity loss, potential liability and bandwidth-clogging consequences that news and media spam unsolicited commer
• Internetnews: FTC to Pursue Deceptive E-mail Advertisers - The Federal Trade Commission is planning to announce spam a series spam of actions against suspected spammers in spam coming weeks.
• Wired: E-Marketers Rue Address Turnover - Thirty-one percent of Americans change e-mail addresses each 2002 year, in news and media part to evade spammers, according to 2002 a new study.
• Wired: Candidate: Spam in Every Pot - A supposedly Internet-savvy Republican candidate for governor of 2002 California, one of the few states with an 2002 anti-spam law, isn\\'t campaigning against unsolicited e-mail -- 2002 he\\'s sending it. Bill Jones\\' campaign sent out 2002 thousands of unsolicited e-mails this
• donga.com: Compulsory Notice of `Adult Advertisement` for Sexual Spam Mails - The advertising mails containing bad things for juveniles spam like sexual and violent contents should attach the spam notice of `Ads for Adults` to the title spam from July.
• andersja: Spam, Hype and SpamAssassin - An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin.
• San Francisco Chronicle: Spam stampede clogs Internet - Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, spam porn and 2002 Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this spam message from computer experts: 2002 You ain\'t seen nothing spam yet.
• New Architect: A Tidal Wave Of Spam - Editorial. One man decides to give up spam on spam 2002 filtering.
• Wired: Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam - A new great wall is being built, this news and media spam time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems news and media spam administrators and intended only to stop spam, the news and media spam wall could eventually cut off much of the news and media spam e-mail communications between the East and the West.
• ABCNEWS.com: New Ways to Can Spam E-mail - New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks.
• Slashdot: As the Spam Turns - The SBL has added Verio\\'s corporate mail servers news and media 2002 to its blocklist which protects nearly 100 million news and media 2002 mailboxes, because of the number of spam gangs news and media 2002 on the Verio network. Verio also provides connectivity news and media 2002 to AS26212, a collection of 9 of the news and media 2002 most notorious s
• BBC: E-mail makes surfers emotional - According to US-based net think-tank the Nielsen Norman Group, people spam can have highly emotional reactions to e-mail newsletters.
• BBC News: Using the net to catch junk mail - A Napster-like network might be able to stem the tide of spam mail messages flooding the internet.
• NewsFactor: Spam Versus Technology: The Battle Rages On - One difficulty in stopping spammers is that some spam of their 2002 ploys work. If no one believed spam the story of the 2002 deposed, rich prince and spam others like it, much spam would 2002 cease.
• The Register: Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons - Spam fighters have come up with an idea 2002 to frustrate 2002 the automatic creation of email accounts 2002 often used to send 2002 spam.
• Newsfactor: How To Shut Down Spam - Don\\'t ever click on a remove link to remove your news and media e-mail address from a list.
• The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from? - The growth of the spam problem in 2002 news and media news and media has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies news and media news and media that sell spam filtering software say currently the news and media news and media percentage of email that is spam could be news and media news and media 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared news and media news and media to less than 10% a year ago.
• donga.com: 4 Million Won Penalty to 5 Companies Distributed `Spam mails` Indiscrimately. - 5 companies including adult broadcasting companies and shopping malls that have sent `Spam mails` ignoring the rejection of the receivers were imposed to correctional fines.
• seattlep-i.com: 'Spam' bill would require senders to include personal info - Unsolicited e-mail, also known as "spam," would become spam a thing spam of the past under a bill spam introduced by Sen. Bill spam Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland.
• BBC News: New York takes on 'spam' e-mail - Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch, state attorney general spam Elliot Spitzer sues MonsterHut.com for sending millions of \'spam\' e-mail spam adverts.
• CNET.com: Free speech or campaign spam? - California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his news and media Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest news and media over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to news and media spam.
• San Francisco Chronicle: Spam going mobile - Fight is on to keep unwanted text ads news and media 2002 off cell phones.
• The Register: Anti-spam filters kill legitimate emails - Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of spam legitimate emails.
• smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words - Green describes these electronic messages as "a little ray of spam sunshine". It irritates him that some of the recipients can\\'t spam see the light. They regard Green\\'s sunshine as spam, get spam mad as hell, and send him responses that are "threatening,

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