05.09.03Spam: More than just a nuisance

Computerworld, Malaysia relates:
NETWORK Associates estimates a staggering 40 per cent of all e-mails circulating today are spam. Ashley Wearne, area vice president for Network Associates, said spam can also have a detrimental impact on business profitability and productivity, as well as raise legal issues.

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09.09.03Major victory in war on spam

Silicon.com writes:
China has woken up to the problem of spam email and blocked 127 servers which were identified as being the source of high volumes of unsolicited email.

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15.09.03Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

Wired.com writes:
The most promising new approach is better filters that use Bayesian algorithms to tag spam automatically and move it into a spam folder. The algorithms look at the body and header of an e-mail and judge from past experience whether an incoming message is junk. Users then train the algorithm, by moving misclassified e-mail from one e-mail folder to another.

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17.09.03Computer Clinic

BBCi relates:
According to research spam now accounts for over half of all emails received, and spam volumes have increased 500 percent over the last two years, but there are ways of reducing the number of unwanted messages.

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05.09.03Spam: More than just a nuisance

09.09.03Major victory in war on spam

15.09.03Antispam Bills: Worse Than Spam?

17.09.03Computer Clinic