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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)
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- 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)
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- BBC: E-mail makes surfers emotional
- According to US-based net think-tank the Nielsen Norman Group, people can have highly emotional reactions to e-mail newsletters. (October 06, 2002)
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- BBC News: Hotmail puts squeeze on spam
- Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address. (September 19, 2002)
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- The Age: Spam, the plague giving the Net indigestion
- 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. (August 01, 2002)
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- smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words
- 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". (July 26, 2002)
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- ABCNEWS.com: New Ways to Can Spam E-mail
- New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks. (June 19, 2002)
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- 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. (April 30, 2002)
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- donga.com: Spam Mail with False Title to be Punished
- The person who sends e-mails without an indication of advertisement or containing false exaggerated ads will be punished of suspension of business license or criminal punishment from May. (April 24, 2002)
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- 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 a larger effort to control the proliferation of unsolicited e-mail. (April 18, 2002)