05.01.04Feedback on spam urgent

The Straits Times writes:
BRITAIN'S success in combating a computer annoyance called spam gives hope to users in Singapore and elsewhere in the world who are plain fed up with the unsolicited e-mail. The relief to choked British computer mailboxes came in the wake of new laws aimed at countering junk e-mail. Under the legislation, enacted last September, spammers could be fined Ł5,000 ($15,200) in a magistrate's court or face an unlimited penalty from a jury.

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13.01.04Spam may cost Hong Kong $10 billion a year

IDG Communications, Hong Kong relates:
About 50 percent of all e-mail received in Hong Kong is spam and could be costing the economy up to HK$10 billion a year, according to survey findings released today by the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association.

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14.01.04Is the CAN-SPAM Law Working?

PCWorld writes:
Less than 1 percent of spam e-mail sent to U.S. inboxes this month complies with a national antispam law that went into effect January 1, according to two spam filtering vendors.

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27.01.04Drastic reduction in spam seen by 2006

Houston Chronicle, TX writes:
Spam offers account for more than half of all e-mail traffic, but at least two high-tech executives say the torrent of pornography and unbelievably low mortgage rates could slow to a trickle by 2006.

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BBC writes:
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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28.01.04Chairman Bill's 'magic spam cure' - a revenue opportunity?

The Register writes:
Bill Gates in what he characterized as "a magic solution" has vowed to defeat junk email within two years, and has proposed three ideas to defeat it.

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05.01.04Feedback on spam urgent

13.01.04Spam may cost Hong Kong $10 billion a year

14.01.04Is the CAN-SPAM Law Working?

27.01.04Drastic reduction in spam seen by 2006

28.01.04Chairman Bill's 'magic spam cure' - a revenue opportunity?