23.12.02Microsoft is taking spam fighting more seriously in the next version of its widely used Outlook e-mail and contact-management software.

Outlook 11 will, by default, no longer grab data such as images from outside servers when previewing e-mail formatted like Web pages. The ability to send and receive e-mail formatted in Hypertext Markup Language was at one time touted as a feature in Microsoft's e-mail programs.
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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.

What is spam?

Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.

Spam Tips: The Seven Signs Of Spam

PCWORLD.COM writes:
It's easy to spot spam, but hard to automate a system to deal with it. Our suggestions may help you deal with some of the more common tricks spammers use.

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24.12.02State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Junk E-Mail

KCBS Reporter writes:
California may become the first state to ban junk e-mails or spam.

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25.12.02America Online Wins $6.9M Judgment in Spam Sex E-Mail Case

AOL Time Warner Inc.'s America Online unit won a $6.9 million judgment against a company accused of sending more than a billion junk e-mail messages promoting sexually explicit Web sites to AOL customers.

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27.12.02Whitelisting could be spam remedy

Nwfusion reports:
Spam is nearing a crisis point for e-mail users and administrators. But we don't have to accept it as an inevitable force of nature. The first step in the fight against spam is to dispel the notion that users are powerless against the onslaught. There is an expanding array of antispam tools we can deploy throughout our messaging infrastructures.

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30.12.02Anti-Spam instructions

Tired of wading through all that junk mail? Learn how to stop the spammers -- here are instructions to automatically filter your e-mail, defend your site from exploitation by the spammers, and get involved!

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Spam-filtering techniques

Paul Graham writes:
I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it is. If we can write software that recognizes their messages, there is no way they can get around that.

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