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Spam Growth Increases During March
News Anti-spam firm Brightmail recorded a 4 percent month-on-month increase in the amount of spam detected by its Probe Network. The most common kinds of spam can best be described as the usual suspects, with porn, scams, financial services and product...
[April 9, 2003, 10:55]
SHRED: Spam Harassment Reduction Via Economic Disincentives
White Papers Spam (often defined as unsolicited commercial email) has grown dramatically in the last few years with a significant impact on users' productivity, increase in network traffic, wastage of storage, and useful email being ignored as a result of user...
[April 24, 2004, 0:00]
Spam, Viruses, And Content Compliance: An Opportunity To Strategically Respond To Immediate Tactical Concerns
White Papers For most organizations, unsolicited commercial e-mail - or spam - is the single greatest threat to the stability, security, and usefulness of their e-mail system. The spam plague could not have come at a worse time: most companies now find that e...
[April 24, 2004, 0:00]
Spam Law Risks Blocking Genuine Sales Pitches
News The new Spam Act may be designed to stop spammers but it is also likely to catch legitimate businesses selling their products and services online. Clearswift Asia Pacific managing director Chy Chuawiwat said at a Spam Forum today "chances are that...
[April 7, 2004, 12:30]
Spam, No Bother, For Brother International
White Papers The growing email traffic has forced IT managers to deal with a prevalent spam problem, as well as the clear threat of email viruses. The growing concern for spam and the threats from viruses, forced them to act, and so they selected Clearswift CS...
[May 2, 2004, 0:00]
Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Messages (Spam) In OECD Member Countries
White Papers The issue of spam has not yet been examined at the OECD. This paper should be viewed as an initial approach to survey the problems related to and caused by spam. It focuses on identifying the characteristics of spam, the reasons why spam is...
[May 1, 2004, 0:00]
Spam Blacklist To Introduce Fees
News One of Australia's leading spam blacklists will soon move to a subscription-only model. The list, operated by Reynolds Technology, hosts several "zones", or lists, that are maintained by other anti-spam groups such as Spam Prevention Early Warning...
[September 11, 2003, 13:15]
Relevancy, Spam, Technology, Cloaking And Ranking: The Ethical Guide
White Papers This paper talks about spam faced by search engines. They do this by feeding spam to the search engine spider. Spam causes problems for search engines because it does not allow them to deliver the most relevant results to their audiences.
[April 18, 2004, 0:00]
Spam Inquiry To Focus On International Laws
News An inquiry into spam, to be held by a cross-party group of MPs next month, is to look at how international laws can be used to stem the flow of unsolicited bulk email. Spam is an increasing problem not only for individuals, who often see their mail...
[June 16, 2003, 11:20]
Spam 101: The Basics
White Papers Spam is extremely annoying, and fighting it is tremendously complex. Identifying and removing spam before it enters your network and employee mailboxes is the goal. The best solution to reducing Spam's associated pain is an intelligent technical...
[June 5, 2004, 0:00]
Spam And Content Filtering
White Papers The sheer volume of spam is only part of the problem. The ingenuity of sophisticated, professional spammers has rendered traditional spam fighting tools practically ineffective. IronMail, the leading solution for enterprise spam control, provides...
[June 5, 2004, 0:00]
Spam Clampdown Starts To Win Victories
Talkback Most spam is now sent via virus-infested home computers; the spammers have entire networks of theses computers and a control system for commanding them. I have seen exactly two real spams come from hotmail and aol servers, and hotmail tech support...
[April 10, 2004, 6:27]
Spam Spikes: A Real Risk To Your Business
White Papers Spam currently accounts for around 70% of emails heading to corporate gateways. Many businesses that have invested heavily in anti-spam defenses, especially in-house appliance-based or software-based systems, regularly find themselves suffering...
[April 2, 2008, 0:00]
Gates: Spam Erodes Trust In Technology
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates weighed in on the spam debate for a congressional hearing Wednesday, outlining in a letter the legal measures he believes are necessary to stop junk email. The hearing furthered discussions that had begun at a three...
[May 22, 2003, 12:26]
SPAM, The Curse Of The New Millenium: An Overview And White Paper
White Papers This paper provides an overview of spam and describes few ways to prevent it. The only characteristic of spam that can be identified categorically is the fact that it is always unsolicited; this must therefore form the fundamental underpinning of...
[April 18, 2004, 0:00]
Spam-maker Sues SpamArrest
Talkback get a life the word spam was all over the internet before this company used the word spam and is only repeating the word that the internet as a whole invented. When I see arrest after spam on a can then the police can sue yout for using the word...
[May 18, 2005, 8:47]
Spam Clampdown Starts To Win Victories
Talkback I am getting spam from the following yahoo.com/@msn.com/@hotmail.com.ebay etc. I have had 30 in the last few days. Who do i complain to about these?
[April 8, 2004, 13:18]
Spam Law Risks Blocking Genuine Sales Pitches
Talkback Surely any unsolicated e-mail is classed as spam by the recipient. Why should companies be able to bypass these rules and still fill up our mailboxes with product information and offers that we are not concerned with.
[April 7, 2004, 13:01]
Spam Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Leader Government legislation — such as the mostly toothless Can-Spam Act — has done little to curb spammers. If all the stakeholders agree what is and what is not spam, it's much harder for those who don't agree with the code to legally affect those who do.
[October 12, 2006, 17:10]
Spam: Now A Corporate Concern
White Papers What was once a mild irritation has now grown into a global epidemic, with companies beginning to realise that spam is becoming a serious drain on resources and a threat to e-mail security. This white paper discusses the problem of spam, where it...
[November 24, 2003, 23:00]
