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Microsoft anti-spam campaign 'hypocritical'
News The software maker and some of its competitors that provide Internet service and Web-based email are outdoing one another with highly publicised anti-spam campaigns. But even such a busy anti-spam schedule has failed to convince Microsoft's critics...
[June 26, 2003, 14:42]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
News In a statement from the company said: "We are astonished by the enormous resonance generated by the "Make Love No Spam" campaign. With this campaign we intended to raise a new impulse in the antispam discussion and therefore create awareness for...
[December 6, 2004, 16:05]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
Talkback In the week that the screensaver worked, it did more to combat spam than anything else has since spam had a name. Laws against spam haven't worked; filters are mediocer at best, and don't fix the root of the problem, nobody has succeded in bringing...
[December 6, 2004, 16:57]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
Talkback What ever the perceived faults of the Lycos plans are, I still throw my resounding support behind industry initiatives like this. Having been in the web industry since the mid 90's I have seen the cowboy attitude of unscrupulous operators first hand.
[December 6, 2004, 16:59]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
Talkback Taking the spammers side against the Lycos screensaver is the same as encouraging burglars to sue for injury when they trip over your doormat. The only wrongs here are the people who send out this stuff.
[December 6, 2004, 19:09]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
Talkback It's totally pathetic that people should be complaining about the spam in their inbox and then not allow others to do something about it. Here was a perfectly good solution to a pain in the ass problem and it get's shot down just because a bunch of...
[December 7, 2004, 8:37]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
Talkback What is the problem? Are people starting a rights for spammers group now?
[December 7, 2004, 14:29]
Lycos anti-spam campaign bites the dust
Talkback It should be clear now, that our spammers are not just the 'script-kiddies', but Big Business heavily involved. Hopefully the story won't end with the Lycos initiative. JJ
[December 7, 2004, 1:10]
Lycos anti-spam weapon melts away
Talkback These links give an interesting insight about what the recent antispam campaign was about.http://corporate.starring.se/content/case.jsp? I think the screen saver is an excellent tool for reducing spam.
[December 5, 2004, 1:36]
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[June 20, 2009, 0:00]
Australia set to enact anti-spam law
News Williams also said the National Office of the Information Economy would coordinate a 12-month information campaign about the legislation and about spam, kicking off early in 2004. Australia's Spam Act will come into law on 11 April 2004, 120 days...
[December 19, 2003, 9:45]
Microsoft launches anti-spam court action in UK
News Intensifying its campaign against spammers, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had taken legal action in the company's home state of Washington and in the United Kingdom. It also filed two suits in the United Kingdom, where the defendants are...
[June 18, 2003, 8:54]
Lycos anti-spam site hit by hackers
News Lycos on Tuesday kicked off its "make love not spam" campaign by offering users a screensaver that helps to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on spammers' Web sites. Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure, which advised users not to...
[December 1, 2004, 8:05]
First Anti-Spam Day launched
News Today is the first Global Anti-Spam Day -- dubbed 'Dump the Junk Day' -- which is being run by Yahoo in the hope of further raising the profile of the worldwide spam problem. Stephen Timms, UK e-commerce minister, has thrown his weight behind the...
[May 22, 2003, 8:42]
Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army
News In its 'make love not spam' campaign, Lycos entices users to join the zombie army with the following message: Steve Linford, director of non-profit anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, has dedicated the last eight years of his life to fighting spammers.
[November 30, 2004, 12:55]
Anti-spammers hobble Oxfam's Kosovo email campaign
News Matthew Eccles, managing director of WWAV Rapp Collins, the direct marketing group that worked on the campaign, was disillusioned by the reaction from the anti-spammers. Nonetheless, when a report on Excite's UK news service said Oxfam was...
[April 22, 1999, 7:13]
US spam scams slammed
News Ninety percent of spam that tries to defraud Web users originates in the United States, an international anti-fraud campaign reported this week. Anti-spam campaigner Spamhaus believes that junk mail now accounts for 75 percent of all email.
[February 24, 2005, 14:50]
Spamming tool goes on the run
News The amount of heat it [MCI] was getting was too much," said Steve Linford, director of anti-spam campaign group Spamhaus. The company quickly withdrew the "Make Love Not Spam" campaign after it received heavy industry criticism.
[February 28, 2005, 16:30]
Spam gets political
Talkback Is this ambiguous spam an anti-Bush campaign or pro-Bush? Those who believe this "confession " to be true might vote for Bush.
[October 8, 2004, 21:51]
Trojan poses as fake Lycos screensaver
News On Friday, Lycos terminated its "Make Love Not Spam" screen saver campaign after it was bombarded with criticism for attacking spammers' Web sites using denial-of-service-like attacks. An identity-stealing email Trojan that disguises itself as the...
[December 7, 2004, 11:00]
