08.05.03Steps being taken against the blight of spam

Canada.com writes:

Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of junk e-mail, also known as spam. It's been all downhilll since the first known spam, an invitation to a 1978 Digital Equipment Corp. demonstration of new minicomputers.

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09.05.03Yahoo! to host anti-spam day

Netimperative.com writes:

Yahoo! is planning to host Europe's first anti-spam day on 22 May as part of its continued effort raise awareness about, and fight the growing number of unsolicited emails.

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16.05.03Spambully for Outlook Express

The software corner writes:

SpamBully is one of these personal spam blocking programs that try to eliminate the unwanted messages being sent to you continuously through the day.

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# | 01.20 | | No comments yet

Is Bayesian filtering the solution to your spam nightmare?

TwinCities.com writes:

If you’re using another e-mail program, you can get a spam-filtering add-on that uses the same techniques. Options include SpamSieve for Macintosh and Spam Bully for Windows.

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22.05.03Legislators, industry call for law to control junk e-mail

USAtoday writes:

"Spam" now accounts for 46% of all e-mails sent, said Enrique Salem, president of Brightmail, a San Francisco company that helps Internet providers block spam before it reaches users' inboxes. He told lawmakers that half of e-mail will be spam by December, up from 7% in 2001.

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23.05.03Follow a few simple rules to can most of your spam

The Detroit Free Press writes:
With unsolicited junk messages now accounting for 40 to 70 percent of all e-mail traffic, the ability to set rules about what gets through and what doesn't is one of the most effective tools Internet users can muster.

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27.05.03How to spot and stop spam

BBC News relates:
Unsolicited e-mails now infuriatingly clutter many inboxes, just as paper junk mail buried many a front door map. But is smart technology set to save us from spam?

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29.05.03U.S. efforts to fight spam may add to junk received

Detroit Free Press relates:
"The more they regulate and the more they compromise, the more they legitimize spam, and the more spam we're all going to get," says John Mozena, of Grosse Pointe Woods, a co-founder of CAUCE, or the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail.

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