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Vodafone considers charging for mobile spam
News Mobile network operator Vodafone is considering charging business customers for sending multimedia messages in an attempt to prevent its mobile messaging systems becoming clogged up with unsolicited junk mail.
[June 7, 2004, 17:50]
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]
Data Protection law may outlaw spamming
News We believe that about 95% of unsolicited mail is stopped by this. Discussions are currently underway at the European Commission and the Department of Trade and Industry about whether unsolicited e-mails can be controlled under the...
[October 26, 1998, 17:17]
AOL vows to see spammers in court
News In April this year, it filed five lawsuits against individuals and companies that it claimed were sending bulk unsolicited e-mail to its members. This makes it an offence for a UK company to send unsolicited mail to consumers with whom they don't...
[December 10, 2003, 15:35]
M'Learned Web: The problem with Spam
News There is likely to be legislation from Europe under which spammers are required to give the recipient the option to decline further unsolicited messages. Given a choice between a death threat and the unsolicited offer of some cheap hardware, most...
[July 13, 1999, 15:54]
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]
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]
Spam Monitor
Downloads Spam Monitor is an easy-to-use spam filter that detects and isolates unsolicited junk mail sent to your mailbox. Designed for people that aren't computer experts, Spam Monitor's powerful wizard configures your PC with the safest anti-spam...
[September 19, 2009, 15:23]
RefuseSpam POP3 Retriever
Downloads RefuseSPAM POP3 Retriever is a pop3-based, anti-spam, program that uses challenge-response technology to stop unsolicited junk e-mail spam from clogging your inbox. Unlike other anti-spam solutions, RefuseSpam.com quickly and easily blocks spam...
[November 3, 2003, 7:45]
An Artificial Neural Nets for Spam e-Mail Recognition
White Papers The volume of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages (also called as junk e-mail or spam) transmitted by the Internet has reached epidemic proportions nowadays. Firstly, junk email occupies server storage space and consumes network bandwidth, for...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
UK law failing to nail spammers
News The e-commerce minister at the time, Stephen Timms, had claimed that they would play an important part in fighting the growth of unsolicited junk mail. The UK government's anti-spam legislation has yet to make an impact, 12 months after its...
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
Star69
Downloads The primary use for this program is to report harassing or unsolicited e-mail (spam). Fight junk mail by going after the source! Star69 works with Apple's Mail program, telling you the e-mail address of the network or ISP that it came from.
[March 6, 2003, 6:00]
Hotmail promises better spam-catching
News Days after Yahoo unveiled new mechanisms for controlling spam, or unsolicited junk mail, on its free Web email service, Microsoft sent Hotmail account holders an email that pledged to upgrade its services with the white lists next month and...
[October 24, 2003, 9:30]
Spam maker swallows junk email double meaning
News In a message posted on the official Spam Web site, Hormel says it has no qualms with the alternate meaning as long as one writes SPAM, the meat, in all capital letters, and spam, the unsolicited e-mail, in lowercase.
[May 31, 2001, 14:22]
Proxy servers boost spam
News According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk email. Many proxy servers are installed insecurely, and spammers have discovered tricks to tap into...
[September 23, 2002, 11:31]
Analyst: Don't worry about AOL's email fees
News However the analysts hinted that AOL runs of the risk of having its system hijacked by spammers who may be prepared to pay to see their unsolicited mail bypass the ISPs filters. Like many online service providers, AOL has found junk mail a rising...
[March 7, 2006, 12:15]
Hotmail clamps down on spam
News Hotmail users accessing the service via dial-up accounts were particularly angered by the wasted time and money spent ploughing through a cluttered inbox deleting spam and trying to spot the unsolicited mail from the genuine correspondences.
[September 20, 2002, 15:56]
Yahoo wages war against spam senders
News The company said its spam-blocking method differed from those of its competitors because it targets the use of its service to send junk mail out, rather than targeting unsolicited mail on its way into members' in-boxes.
[June 11, 2003, 9:49]
MSN blocks email from rival ISPs
News Beyond that, MSN's spam-abuse team compiles its own list of IP addresses that are known to generate unsolicited junk messages, and it blocks all messages from them. Microsoft's MSN said its email services had blocked some incoming messages from...
[March 3, 2003, 8:10]
Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech
News Sender ID has not been a success because it is not very highly regarded, said Ray Everett-Church, co-founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail and co-author of the book "Fighting Spam for Dummies.
[June 23, 2005, 9:30]
