03.06.03A simple guide to spotting spam

Miami Herald writes:
No matter how many anti-spam programs you use, spam is going to slip through. And the question of whether to delete or open each e-mail comes down to a few words -- the contents of the subject line.

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05.06.03AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo Team to Tackle Spam

PCWorld writes:
Three of the world's leading e-mail providers have joined together to announce their intentions to reduce the amount of spam faced by e-mail users, much of which comes from e-mail addresses set up through participating companies America Online, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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06.06.03

Presstelegram.com writes:
New technology makes senders prove they are human, but many fear that will cause more problems than it solves.

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09.06.03Return to sender, false address unknown

The Register writes:

Are spammers deliberately getting mail servers to bounce undeliverable messages towards their targets as a way of getting their junk read?

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10.06.03Study: Children deluged with spam

News.com writes:

The findings of a new study will disturb but probably not surprise parents of young Net users: Spam is miring kids' online experience with smut and scams.

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11.06.03Spam: The Gotchas Never End

Eweek.com writes:
Everyone's up in arms about spam. The government wants to legislate it, software vendors want to control it, and corporate IT managers just want to eradicate it. But the fight against spam has had some unintended consequences you just might not have thought about. Here are four spam problems to consider as you attempt to wipe it out.

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13.06.03FTC: Blame Foreigners for Spam

Wired.com writes:
Listening to the Federal Trade Commission, one easily can get the impression that deceptive e-mail is downright un-American, since so much of it comes from places like Nigeria, Canada and Russia.

That's why the top consumer watchdog agency is asking Congress for expanded power to pursue foreign spammers, among other requests.

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23.06.03Computer experts to discuss spam concerns

ABC Online, Australia writes:
Computer experts and politicians are meeting in Canberra this week to discuss ways to curb growing number of unwanted emails, or spam.

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Some view spam as an opportunity

Bostonherald.com writes:
Increasingly sophisticated spammers are beginning to overwhelm e-mail, threatening to make it far less useful as a way to communicate. Even direct marketers - those companies that send us junk e-mail and ``snail mail'' - agree that spam is out of hand.

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27.06.03Sorting the ham from the spam

The Sydney Morning Herald writes:

Late last year Paul Graham wrote "A Plan For Spam", setting out with extraordinary clarity why well-implemented Bayesian filtering should work better than other methods. After Graham pointed the way, new Bayesian filtering implementations appeared within a few weeks and dozens are now available.

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30.06.03

The Globe and Mail, Canada reports:
Spam pesters everyone with Internet access, because spam artists are so smart and cyberspace is so, well, endless. They call the Internet a liberating and democratic technology, and it is, but this kind of democracy now knows few limits, including spam.

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