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SpamNet Signs Up Surfers To Fight Junk Email
News Ordinary Web surfers could play a major role in stemming the rising tide of junk email crippling the Net, if a new anti-spam company hits its mark. Still, technology pundits say that most existing anti-spam solutions haven't been able to keep up...
[June 19, 2002, 14:09]
Junk Mail Threat Scares MPs Away From Email
News The select committee has said it will investigate email filtering software, in the hope that a system could be set up to prioritise email from an MP's constituents and weed out junk email. According to the House of Commons Information Select...
[July 23, 2002, 11:55]
Antivirus Firm To Attack Junk Email
News The company will announce on Monday that it has partnered with anti-spam services company Postini to release its Spam Prevention Service (SPS), network-level software designed to fight junk email. The software will use a scientific method known as...
[March 3, 2003, 14:36]
SLICE The SPAM: Junk Email Filters And Other Anti-Spam Features Of Outlook 2003-Level 100
White Papers Do you receive unwanted or junk e-mail? Junk e-mail and spam can be bothersome and even offensive. View this webcast and learn to use the features in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 that help you spend less time managing unwanted e-mail.
[October 1, 2004, 0:00]
Spam Maker Swallows Junk Email Double Meaning
News Hormel Foods, the maker of the legendary spiced lunch meat made of pork shoulders and ham, says it can live with Spam's double meaning as junk electronic mail. And in 1997, the company took on a junk e-mail entrepreneur named Sanford "Spamford...
[May 31, 2001, 14:22]
Junk Email: No Relief In Sight For The Spammed
News There is no sign of relief for companies already overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unsolicited and unwanted email messages clogging their mail systems. Email security firm MessageLabs' filtering statistics for April, which were published on Monday...
[May 24, 2004, 15:45]
How To Score In The War Against Junk Email
News And if we allow government to regulate email, we better watch what they do very carefully. The Legislature there passed a law making it a crime to send mass, unsolicited email. Be sly: Don't add your email address to Internet directories.
[March 8, 1999, 17:28]
Spam: Still Out Of Control
News The amount of junk is increasing partly because email marketing is seen as the cheapest and easiest way to reach potential customers. About 20 percent of incoming messages to AT&T WorldNet are junk email, nearly double the number from the previous...
[March 21, 2002, 14:07]
Plug Pulled On Anti-spam Project
News A popular anti-spam service is shutting itself down, saying it is no longer effective at protecting organisations from junk email. It aimed to stop spammers using SMTP proxy servers — also known as open mail relays — to flood the internet with junk...
[December 22, 2006, 10:14]
EU Acts On Spam And Copyright
News Spam and other junk email costs Web users around £6bn each year, a new report from the European Commission concludes. The exponential growth of junk email in recent years is a fact of life," says the EU's internal market commissioner Frits...
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
Anti-spam Standard Catches On - With Spammers
News With few junk email filters supporting a protocol for verifying the source address of digital messages, spammers have adopted it themselves as a way to appear more legitimate, according to a report released on Wednesday.
[September 9, 2004, 9:05]
Spam Fight Goes Global
News An initiative to encourage more global co-operation in combating junk email has been set up by six international organisations involved in spam-fighting. The StopSpamAlliance hopes to help businesses and consumers deal with unsolicited junk email.
[November 1, 2006, 11:44]
Uncle Spam Needs You
News Larry Kilgallen got so fed up with junk email that he finally decided to do something about it. The battle against junk email, or spam, has numerous allies: Legislators have enacted laws targeting it, trade groups have crafted voluntary guidelines...
[February 5, 2002, 14:39]
Spam Plan Fails In EU Committee
News The European Parliament is unlikely to announce a ban on unsolicited email, after a committee decided not to approve an "opt-in" junk mail policy. There is currently no consensus across Europe as how junk email should be handled, with individual...
[July 12, 2001, 12:01]
Business Email May Escape Spam Crackdown
News The government is considering exempting business email accounts from its forthcoming clampdown on unsolicited bulk email, a move that would give spammers the green light to continue bombarding UK workers with junk messages.
[July 2, 2003, 13:52]
UK Spam Campaigner To Help Europe Fight Back
News A UK based anti-spam organisation is to advise legal officials at the European Commission on new legislation to block junk email. Britain's implementation of the EU Privacy and Electronics Communication Directive allows spammers to send unsolicited...
[October 25, 2004, 17:15]
UK Advertising Authority Introduces Anti-spam Rules
News The UK's advertising authority has taken new measures to stop junk email and text messaging, by making it mandatory in most cases for advertisers to get explicit consent before they can send commercial messages.
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
US Ruling Boosts Spam Fight
News A federal appeals court said on Friday that a law restricting junk faxes was constitutional, setting a precedent that favours legal attempts to restrict unsolicited email. A junk fax typically costs the recipient more and is more intrusive than a...
[March 24, 2003, 11:11]
Preventing Third Party Relaying In MS Exchange Server 5.5
White Papers Unsolicited Commercial Email, or spam (as it has become more commonly known) seems to be with the people to stay, in much the same way as the junk mail that lands on the doormat each morning. Most of the time the people happily delete the daily...
[October 18, 2006, 0:00]
Charity Caught In Anti-spam Crossfire
News A religious charity in London recently discovered first-hand the dangers that can accompany new measures to stem the tide of junk email, when the organisation's site was yanked offline without notice.
[August 30, 2002, 15:22]
