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- MSN opts for Brightmail anti-spam defence
- MSN has signed up with Brightmail to stop its email users getting spammed. The ISP will offer its five million email users in the US the option of Brightmail's Anti-Spam Solution. [The Register] (April 12, 2001)
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- Spammers face felony charges
- Californians Michael Persaud, 24, of San Diego and Frank Kriticos, 25, of Santee will answer felony criminal charges of spamming and so earn the distinction of being the first people so charged in that state, according to a story in the local Union Tribune newspaper. [The Register] (March 15, 2001)
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- U.S. representatives mount attack on spam
- A bill designed to give consumers and ISPs greater control over a flood of unwanted e-mail, commonly known as spam, was introduced Wednesday by the same U.S. representatives who sponsored the legislation in the last Congress. [CNN] (February 16, 2001)
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- Official: Spam costs E10 billion
- Spam costs Net users a whopping E10 billion ($9.33 billion) a year, according to the European Commission. [The Register] (February 02, 2001)
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- Europe warms to spam ban
- Lobbyists for the European Internet industry believe their campaign for a ban on spam is gaining momentum. [The Register] (January 11, 2001)
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- Evil spammers jailed for two years
- Two Los Angeles men are to go to jail for their part in a bulk email scam which duped 12,000 people and severely impacted the operations of several large US ISPs. [The Register] (January 03, 2001)
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- NPR - All Things Considered - Spam
- A radio segment on "spam" with Jason Catlett, head of Junkbusters Corporation, which is a privacy advocacy firm. He talks about how spam works, how it makes its way around the world and why it's successful. Then a talk with Alan Ralsky, director of Creative Marketing Zone.
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Deceptive chain e-mails targeted
- FTC goes after spam purveyors who peddle dubious schemes.
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- seattlep-i.com: 'Spam' bill would require senders to include personal info
- Unsolicited e-mail, also known as "spam," would become a thing of the past under a bill introduced by Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland.
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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 09, 2002)
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- 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 02, 2002)
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- 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)
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- 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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- andersja: Spam, Hype and SpamAssassin
- An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin. (October 16, 2002)
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- BBC: Spam poses threat to privacy
- Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam. (October 16, 2002)