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DMnews.com writes:
An anti-spam ruling in New York last month could have vast implications for e-mail marketers. However, one wouldn’t know this from the DMA’s silence on the matter.
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AdAge.com writes:
The Federal Trade Commission today said it would hold a three-day workshop to discuss the problems of "spam," or unsolicited junk e-mail, and possible additional regulatory action.
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PCWORLD writes:
The volume of junk e-mail is spiraling out of control. Don't be ashamed if now you actually receive more spam than regular messages. Your e-mail program's built-in junk mail filter and third-party tools such as Cloudmark's SpamNet and McAfee's SpamKiller trap a lot of unsolicited garbage, but they're far from perfect.
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Sun-Sentinel writes:
An e-mail directing people to check an Internet site for a "better West Palm Beach" touched off an avalanche of electronic junk mail and more than 100 angry phone calls to West Palm Beach government offices.
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PCmagazine writes:
A scalable SMTP e-mail server can send up to a million messages per hour. To hide their identities, spammers often piggyback on top of an unsuspecting third party's mail servers and relay spam through them.
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The NYtimes writes:
At first, the e-mail message reads like all the others: There's the need for confidentiality. An assurance that the transaction is completely legal. And the inevitable appeal, in awkwardly formal language, for help in procuring a large amount of money.
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Out-law.com writes:
Eight out of ten spam e-mails contain covert tracking codes which allow the senders to record and log recipients’ e-mail addresses as soon as they open the message.
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Zdnet writes:
The company, which operates a subscriber based service designed to prevent it's users from receiving spam, uses a "challenge-response" method to sort legitimate mail from unwelcome and unsolicited email advertisements.
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Msnbc writes:
I’m sick of it. You’re sick of it. And it won’t be easy to stop. But the first step in controlling unwanted e-mail is to pass a law.
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NJ.com writes:
One of life's smallest pleasures is discovering personal correspondence in our daily delivery of junk mail. It is generally the first thing we open, or it is set aside to savor when we can give it our full attention.
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It-director writes:
Spam varies from being an irritation to most web users to being a major obstacle to efficient use of the web. Statistics vary. Spam costs £5.6 bn per annum to the US business community but only about 50% of that cost to European business users.
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Yahoo!Finance reports:
A New Study From The Radicati Group Projects That Spam Will Account for Over 45% of All Email Messages in 2003, and Grow to 70% by 2007.
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Wired.com writes:
So how do spammers make any money when no one with even half a clue admits to doing business with them? Are there legions of poverty-stricken spammers out there who are slowly starving to death?
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Startribune.com relates:
Meltzer received at least $159,600 in stock and cash from 1998-2001 for spreading false and misleading information about the companies, according to a civil suit filed Tuesday in federal court in New York by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC labeled him a "professional Internet spammer."
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Businessweek writes:
The coalition said it devised the community--called I_Did_Not_Get_My_Email on Yahoo Groups--as a way to help software companies and anti-spam fighters build junk-mail filters that do not hold legitimate e-mail hostage.
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Windows&Net Magazine writes:
One of the most promising antidotes to spam is so-called Bayesian filtering, which calculates the probability that a given message is spam, based on analysis of messages previously identified as being spam or not being spam. The Bayesian approach demands less maintenance than keyword-based spam filters that require constant updating of word and phrase lists.
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Technology Canada.com writes:
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, filed a lawsuit that claims unnamed users accessed its computer servers and "harvested" a list of Hotmail e-mail addresses to send spam.
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Washingtonpost writes:
AOL and Microsoft's MSN, the two biggest Internet access services, want stiff jail terms for spammers who commit fraud by misrepresenting themselves online; the power to seek injunctions against the theft and use of proprietary e-mail addresses; and large fines to put spammers out of business.
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Heraldsun.news.com writes:
A recent study by Jupiter Media Matrix estimates that the average e-mail user will receive more than 700 spam messages this year. Jupiter predicts this number will grow to more than 1100 next year.
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The BusinessReview relates:
New York consumers would be able to put their names on a list specifying they do not want to receive junk mail or junk e-mail if the state Assembly's Republican minority has its way.
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Internetweek writes:
The Direct Marketing Association says it wants to help stamp out spam, but anti-spam advocates say they fear it's just a trick to clear the way to sending out even more junk.
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The Seattle times writes:
Anti-spam activists and a state attorney have argued against a proposal pushed by Microsoft that would weaken Washington’s tough law against unwanted e-mail.
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The Newsobserver writes:
France's National Assembly on Monday voted in favor of banning unsolicited e-mail sales messages, known as spam.
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News8austin writes:
If SB 698 passes, unsolicited e-mail will have to be properly labeled in the subject line to indicate if it contains adult material. The e-mails can also not have false or deceptive information in the subject line.
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MSN Money writes:
More than half of Americans use e-mail, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. For many of them it’s almost impossible to exaggerate how annoying and time-consuming the torrent of unsolicited e-mail has become.
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The Guardian writes:
Filters can block a lot of obvious spams. In fact, a new breed of filters using Bayesian analysis may prove to be almost as good as humans: see www.paulgraham.com/spam.html. Examples include Spam Bully and Spammunition for Windows, and SpamSieve for Mac OS X.
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