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Computerworld writes:
Many spam e-mails arrive from other countries, and without a global agreement, there is skepticism about the impact regulations would have on reducing spam.
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ZDNet writes:
The spam situation is rapidly deteriorating. The percentage of inbound SMTP traffic classified as spam can be as high as 40 percent for some organizations.
With no end in sight to rising spam volume, Meta Group believes companies must be as aggressive in combating spam as they are in combating mail-borne viruses.
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Techrepublic writes:
The antispam game is triage. There are messages that can be clearly identified as spam, and messages that can be clearly identified as not-spam, and then there is a pile of messages left over that are neither black nor white; they are gray.
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Internetnews reports:
A majority of users want the government to step in and make spamming illegal, according to a new Harris Interactive survey.
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Paul Grahm writes:
The first generation of spam filters used rules to recognize specific spam features. Now a new generation of statistical spam filters seems to offer significantly better performance.
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JoongAngIlbo writes:
Internet shopping malls were the biggest culprits in sending unwanted commercial mail or infringing on privacy last year, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Information and Communication.
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Lawrence Lessig, internet theorist, proposes a two-part solution, combining a labeling system for spam with cyberspace bounty hunters. (That's right, bounty hunters.) One part of the law would require unsolicited commercial e-mail -- the polite term for spam -- to include an "ADV:" tag in the subject line, signaling the message is an advertisement.
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Hoosiertimes writes:
Do not hit "Reply" to remove yourself from the list. By doing that, you can accidentally alert the person creating the spam that your e-mail address is valid, and you will likely be put on additional e-mail spam lists.
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The US military had begun an email campaign urging military and civilian leaders in Iraq to turn away from President Saddam Hussein, a Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity said today.
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Email "spam" is in the eye of the reader-one person's valued information may be another person's spam. You know your list is truly opt-in, but people are so sensitive these days that you risk being branded as a spammer even if you believe you've done nothing wrong.
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Ecommercetimes writes:
Dynamic modification of rules is simple for people but complex for machines; indeed, it is so complex that the cost of sending spam would skyrocket, eliminating the problem.
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WTVW writes:
Indianapolis, IN January 13 -- Members of a Senate committee postponed a vote on a bill designed to reduce junk e-mail.
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The Register writes:
AOL lifted a block on email from ISP Demon this afternoon, after a sudden surge of spam messages provoked AOL into rejecting all email from Demon users last Friday.
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KTUL, OK writes:
For years, telemarketers have been calling our homes. Now, they're also hitting our e-mail. So, 8 On Your Side investigator Cindy Morrison tells us how to stop the spread of SPAM.
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Federal Trade Commission writes:
Do you receive lots of junk email messages from people you don't know? It's no surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email - also known as "spam" - annoying and time consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email in-box.
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YahooNews writes:
Several top Internet experts are in Honolulu to talk about e-mail spam.
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Silicon.com writes:
Anybody despairing at the amount of spam they're receiving in their inbox may do well to consider the plight of one UK IT manager who has had to deal with around 500,000 unsolicited emails in just two months.
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newsobserver.com writes:
Ken Pugh, a computer consultant in Durham, is one of the first people in North Carolina to try, however futilely, to employ the state's new anti-spam law.
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CNN writes:
Several unscrupulous "spammers" have been shut down after bombarding Internet users with e-mail offers for allegedly bogus international drivers' licenses, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.
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infoworld.com reports:
SPAM, LONG THE arch nemesis of e-mail users, has become so pervasive recently that a whole conference is being held to try to find better ways to fight it. Researchers, industry experts and spam filter hackers are descending on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Friday for what is being dubbed as the first-ever Spam Conference.
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IDG.com writes:
The roughly 500 programmers, researchers, hackers and IT administrators gathered in a chilly classroom on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Friday aren't just looking to slow the relentless onslaught of spam -- they want to completely destroy its business model.
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News.com reports:
According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail.
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Paul Graham writes:
Different users have different requirements, but I think for many people a filtering rate of 92% with 1.16% false positives means that filtering is not an acceptable solution, whereas 99.5% with less than .03% false positives means that it is.
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Newsday.com writes:
A Manhattan judge Wednesday barred a Niagara Falls company from sending commercial e-mails _ "spam" _ to Internet subscribers without their permission.
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Yahoo News:
Yesterday's decision in the MonsterHut spam case brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was praised today by Stephen Cobb, a leading privacy expert and author of the recently published "Privacy for Business: Web Sites and Email". In the decision, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lottie E. Wilkins made it clear that deceptive claims about the "opt-in" basis of email are illegal.
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News.com writes:
AT&T WorldNet this week activated a risky spam-filtering technique that it shortly had to defuse after subscribers discovered they were losing legitimate e-mail.
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Globetechnology.com writes:
Unwanted e-mails about hair growth and Nigerian dignitaries wanting to hand over large sums of money are becoming so prevalent and invasive that the federal government is considering proposals to outlaw spam.
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Theinquirer.net writes:
A report in Australian newspaper The Age said that MSN subscribers can't receive mail from lindows.com, the firm in litigation with Microsoft over the word "windows".
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Internet news.com writes:
For users, spam is a time-wasting, and increasingly offensive, annoyance. For IT professionals, spam is an ongoing nightmare, draining resources and bandwidth and creating security hazards in the form of hidden viruses and worms. Last year alone, spam cost U.S. corporations a whopping $8.9 billion.
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Spam Vaccine can dramatically reduce the amount of spam you receive. But spammers have other ways of finding you. Once you’ve vaccinated your Web site, there are some other steps you can take to reduce spam.
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About.com:
Once again, though, I repeat: Simply deleting any spam you get is a viable way to deal with it. If every unsolicited commercial email would find its way to the garbage can (may spammers recycle them or not), the whole spamming industry (?) would go down that path soon as well.
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Techtv.com:
The reality is that you need to give a valid email address to register for websites, verify passwords, and so on. Some of those websites sell or rent their list of email addresses to spammers.
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PCmagazine writes:
Implementing a server-side spam-blocking product should be your first step toward fending off junk e-mail. Beyond this, the IT department can take steps to reduce the volume of spam entering your company.
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Mail Abuse Prevention System writes:
Spammers can connect to a website with a browser just as anyone else can, enter a personalized message with the contents of the message they want delivered (an advertisement, typically), and the email address of the intended victim. Doing this by hand is a slow but viable method for sending spam emails via the Greeting Card site.
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Brad Templeton writes:
After many years of consideration, writing of tools and examination of other tools, I have devised what I believe would be the best current approach to solving the spam problem which does the least damage to the open E-mail system.
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Thedenverchannel.com writes:
Do you hate all that spam that clutters your inbox? Well, you can donate it to a good cause. Believe it or not there is a company out there that wants your spam -- all of it.
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