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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]
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. The appeals panel also stressed that the law reasonably tried to combat the...
[March 24, 2003, 11:11]
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]
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]
UK Advertising Authority Introduces Anti-spam Rules
News The 11th edition of the CAP Code, which went into effect on Tuesday, introduces sanctions specifically aimed at stemming the use of unsolicited email, mobile phone messages and even pop-up and banner ads on the Web.
[March 5, 2003, 14:27]
US Spammers Get Fines And Jail Time
News A Florida man known as the "timeshare spammer" was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday for clogging in-boxes with millions of unsolicited email messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under US federal anti-spam laws.
[November 18, 2005, 8:10]
Europe Moves In Circles Over Spam Laws
News In a second reading of the report, the Committee voted on Monday night to leave it to the discretion of individual member states to decide whether subscribers should be able to "opt in" or "opt out" of unsolicited email for marketing purposes.
[October 23, 2001, 14:47]
AOL Vows To See Spammers In Court
News The Internet service provider has decided that there are few judicial steps it can take in Britain to prevent its customers being bombarded by unsolicited commercial email, so its legal team is concentrating on bringing a case against a major...
[December 10, 2003, 15:35]
SPAM Maker Sees Trademark Bid Canned
News Hormel attempted to register "spam" as a trademark when used to refer to "services to avoid or suppress unsolicited emails", and the "creation and maintenance of computer software; technical consultancy, particularly in combination with network...
[October 5, 2006, 14:15]
Spammers Face Lawsuits And Jail
News The CSA joins a crowded field of at least eight other proposals, each taking a different approach to the growing problem of unsolicited bulk email that has roiled the Internet industry and driven many people and email providers to distraction.
[June 20, 2003, 9:27]
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]
Government Backs Anti-spam Mission To US
News The group, which will include Derek Wyatt MP and e-envoy Andrew Pinder, are scheduled to appear before a Congressional hearing in October -- where they are expected to urge the US to take strong action against the proliferation of unsolicited junk...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
Spammers Target IM Accounts
News Unsolicited commercial appeals on instant messenger are still uncommon, but they are becoming prevalent enough that some IM fans worry their networks are vulnerable to the seemingly unstoppable marketing deluge that has long flooded email in-boxes.
[March 12, 2002, 12:37]
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]
Spammers Try Fooling Filters With Digital Signatures
News Unsolicited bulk email likely makes up a third of the email traffic seen on the Internet; some reports put the ratio as high as 1-in-2. Bulk emailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but...
[October 13, 2003, 9:40]
Spammers Conscript Home PCs To Do Dirty Work
News Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress for greater power to pursue and penalise those who send unsolicited bulk email. The 30,000 computers represent about 14 percent of the total open relays from which MessageLabs...
[June 27, 2003, 13:03]
SpamSource
Downloads SpamSource helps collect information from messages for use in reporting unsolicited junk email. Quickly and easily retreives the e-mail message header and body information for use in Spam Reporting services, notifying e-mail administrators.
[November 30, 2007, 1:01]
Content Filtering With TFS Secure Messaging
White Papers Its server was being inundated with unsolicited junk email (spam). Goshen Rubber Companies, Inc.needed to solve its email problems fast. The company wanted to virus scan documents and it needed to content filter, by key words, inbound and outbound...
[May 3, 2004, 0:00]
Anti-spam Sentiment Grows
News Web users are more annoyed than ever by the continuous flood of unsolicited bulk email sent to inboxes every day; 80 percent of Internet users surveyed said they are "very annoyed" by spam, compared with only 49 percent who responded similarly two...
[January 6, 2003, 9:58]
UK Law Smashes Consumer Spam
News It will still be legal for a company to send unsolicited commercial messages to corporate email addresses. While the EU directive has pushed for an opt-in system, America looks to be on course to introduce legislation that would put the onus on...
[September 18, 2003, 14:45]
