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European telecoms regulation may ban spam
News Unsolicited email has long been regarded by ISPs and users alike as at best a nuisance and at worse an intrusion into privacy. Under the Processing of Personal Data Directive the Commission intends to give email the same status as telephone calls...
[May 11, 2000, 17:09]
December inboxes clogged with junk mail
News In terms of its share of total email traffic, spam broke through the 40 per cent barrier for the first time -- meaning a staggering four in every 10 emails sent is unsolicited. December saw financial services (26 percent of all unsolicited email...
[January 10, 2003, 14:06]
Spam could soon be majority of email
News Once a mild annoyance, unsolicited bulk email -- also known as spam -- could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three email service providers.
[August 29, 2002, 15:15]
UK laws may help spammers look legit
News The UK government's anti-spam crackdown is likely to fail at tackling the problem of unsolicited email and will actually help spammers look as if they are acting legitimately, according to a legal expert.
[July 4, 2003, 11:30]
Australia to ban spam
News The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial email, the minister for communications and information technology, senator Richard Alston announced today.
[July 23, 2003, 10:03]
Spam growth shows no sign of stopping
News The email management company said on Monday that the amount of unsolicited email sloshing round the Internet is still soaring. MessageLab's warning came on the eve of the Spam Summit, where politicians and industry figures will come together to...
[June 30, 2003, 16:29]
FTC finally realises that spammers lie
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study, False Claims in Spam, which analysed 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial email gleaned from FTC databases and government officials' in-boxes, found that 66 percent of spam contains some type of...
[April 30, 2003, 10:48]
Exchange flaw leaves systems 'open to spammers'
News Administrators of email systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk email under their noses, a consultant warned this week. Greenspan, however, argued that the problem has accounted for a...
[November 17, 2003, 10:05]
UK firms warn of increasing spam burden
News Over half of UK businesses believe the problem of unsolicited email is getting worse, according to an official survey, bringing the government's decision to exempt business email accounts from Britain's anti-spam laws into renewed focus.
[April 1, 2004, 17:20]
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]
Botnets lead way in spam charge
News Spam made up 90.4 percent of all email traffic in June, with botnets accounting for over 80 percent of unsolicited messages, according to a new report from Symantec's MessageLabs. Spam sent out from networks of zombie PCs made up 83.2 percent of...
[July 1, 2009, 12:57]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News The government has admitted that its forthcoming anti-spam law will not solve the problem of unsolicited bulk email on its own. He explained that this was because of the problem of tracing spammers, and because most unsolicited bulk email comes...
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Using MDaemon AntiSpam for Spam Control
White Papers To help stop Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE), also known as spam, modern email servers must have configuration options to prevent unauthorized relaying of email messages. More than 50% of all email messages are unsolicited and usually unwelcome.
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
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. The plan would have meant that users would only be sent unsolicited email, or "spam", if they asked...
[July 12, 2001, 12:01]
EU decision on email spam imminent
News A European committee will recommend later on Wednesday whether computer users should only be sent unsolicited email if they volunteer to receive it. The Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs committee will decide whether or not...
[July 11, 2001, 12:43]
Hotmail clamps down on spam
News Help is at hand for the millions of Hotmail users plagued by spam after Microsoft finally agreed to act against unsolicited email. Recent estimates suggest as much as 15 per cent of all email traffic is unsolicited spam, and it's growing fast.
[September 20, 2002, 15:56]
EU acts on spam and copyright
News The report forms part of ongoing European Union (EU) investigation into ways to combat unsolicited email. There is not one example to my knowledge of a reputable company sending unsolicited email," he says.
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
Spammers arm junk mail with multiple threats
News Opportunistic spammers are increasingly posting additional threats, such as links to malware, within the body of their unsolicited email messages, according to new findings by internet security company Marshal.
[July 5, 2007, 9:14]
Spam surge 'turning Britain into e-pariah'
News The government's failure to give businesses protection from unsolicited commercial email risks turning the UK into an Internet outcast, according to one of its political opponents. The government brought in legislation last year that made it...
[May 28, 2004, 17:05]
Spammers switch pills for porn
News A new study issued on Tuesday by anti-spam software maker Clearswift showed that unsolicited email messages relating to health increased significantly last month. However, porn-related pitches represented only 14 percent of all spam last month...
[December 17, 2003, 8:30]
