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• A Third of Work E-Mail Wastes Time

  http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97091
  A new study finds at least 34 percent of e-mail messages at work contain irrelevant information. [ABCNEWS.com]

• Anti-spam group makes up with pollster

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-272039.html
  A controversial anti-spam group agrees to remove a polling and market research firm from its database of suspected junk e-mailers. [C|Net]

• BBC News: EU laws target junk mail spam

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1706221.stm
  Consumers across Europe who have been plagued by junk e-mails and phone messages are being told that new laws are on the way to control them.

• Bill aims to block wireless junk email

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1033-250796.html
  In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? [CNET.com]

• Can Spam Ever Be Stopped?

  http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/9581.html
  Activists decry a loophole in proposed U.S. anti-spam laws that would allow each spammer to send one unsolicited e-mail before an ISP could take action against the spammer. [E-Commerce Times]

• Data protection: "Junk" e-mail costs internet users 10 billion a year worldwide

  http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/01/154
  Internet subscribers world-wide are unwittingly paying an estimated €10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive "junk" e-mails, according to a study undertaken for the European Commission.

• E-mails laden with real news — and rumors

  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001/09/20/ebrief.htm
  The stock market was plummeting Monday. Everything was crazy. And as if that weren't enough, Salomon Smith Barney in Alexandria, Va., was inundated with strange phone calls. [USA Today]

• eBay sellers say new anti-spam system is backfiring

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-253251.html
  The auction giant's new system that was designed to limit spam is forcing some sellers to weed through even more junk mail to find legitimate messages from bidders. [c|net]

• Euro spam vote in limbo

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/09/07/euro_spam_vote_in_limbo/
  The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam. [The Register]

• Europe bottles spam ban

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/11/europe_bottles_spam_ban/
  A European committee has blocked plans to outlaw unsolicited commercial email dealing a major blow to anti-spam supporters. [The Register]

• Europe warms to spam ban

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/11/europe_warms_to_spam_ban/
  Lobbyists for the European Internet industry believe their campaign for a ban on spam is gaining momentum. [The Register]

• Evil spammers jailed for two years

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/03/evil_spammers_jailed_for_two/
  Two Los Angeles men are to go to jail for their part in a bulk email scam which duped 12,000 people and severely impacted the operations of several large US ISPs. [The Register]

• Hotmail spam filters block outgoing e-mail

  http://news.cnet.com/2009-1023-251171.html
  Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. [CNET.com]

• MSN opts for Brightmail anti-spam defence

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/msn_opts_for_brightmail_antispam/
  MSN has signed up with Brightmail to stop its email users getting spammed. The ISP will offer its five million email users in the US the option of Brightmail's Anti-Spam Solution. [The Register]

• Official: Spam costs E10 billion

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/02/official_spam_costs_e10_billion/
  Spam costs Net users a whopping E10 billion ($9.33 billion) a year, according to the European Commission. [The Register]

• Spam filters may feed Web marketing

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-251555.html
  Some popular free Web services are playing both sides of the fence when it comes to protecting consumers from pesky marketers, offering to block junk e-mail while they help advertisers push promotions into customers' in-boxes. [CNET.com]

• Spam Report: U.S. Regulators Ignore Most Junk E-Mail

  http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13397.html
  To date, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has only gone after spam in cases in which deceptive advertising was being prosecuted. Unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) itself, regardless of its contents, has not been a target. [E-Commerce News]

• Spammer Gets Spammed

  http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/18/1645243
  [Slashdot]

• Spammer wrecks UUNet email service

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/12/spammer_wrecks_uunet_email_service/
  UUNet customers have been left stranded without access to their email for the last 36 hours after the outfit took a "very big hit" from spammers earlier this week. [The Register]

• Spammers face felony charges

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/15/spammers_face_felony_charges/
  Californians Michael Persaud, 24, of San Diego and Frank Kriticos, 25, of Santee will answer felony criminal charges of spamming and so earn the distinction of being the first people so charged in that state, according to a story in the local Union Tribune newspaper. [The Register]

• The Register: ORBS' death

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/05/orbs_death_alan_brown_replies/
  Alan Brown makes a short response to the news that ORBS is shutting down.

• U.S. representatives mount attack on spam

  http://edition.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/16/attack.on.spam.idg/index.html
  A bill designed to give consumers and ISPs greater control over a flood of unwanted e-mail, commonly known as spam, was introduced Wednesday by the same U.S. representatives who sponsored the legislation in the last Congress. [CNN]

• UK marketeers to challenge EU email ban

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jan/19/newmedia.marketingandpr
  The British marketing industry has begun the fight back against European Union proposals to ban all unsolicited emails. [Guardian Unlimited]

• Walking the Line Between E-Mail and Spam

  http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/8966.html
  Getting people to say yes to marketing e-mails, and then getting them the messages that are most likely to make them buy, is a thriving industry of its own. [E-Commerce Times]

 

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