   SPAM ArchiveJuly 06, 2006Will AOL Drop Subscription Charges?
AOL will be looking for other revenue sources -- including certified mail senders -- if AOL CEO's proposal to drop subscription fees is put in place
May 31, 2006Send Your Mail to the Australian Government With Just One Click
A commendable trust in people's ability to not game (or accidentally submit incriminating data) to a government-run spam blacklist.
May 04, 2006An Open Letter From a Blocked Email Sender
A legitimate mailer whose message was blocked, seemingly for including sexual phrases, talks about the effect.
May 03, 2006Spam Filters Gone Wild!
Somewhat over-excited title for an everyday story of over-vigilant spam filtering.
February 07, 2006Anti-Spammers Say No to Goodmail Paymail
"An e-mail charge will destroy the spirit of the Internet", says Richard Cox of Spamhaus.
June 20, 2005FTC Says Law Requiring "ADV:" in Spam Subject Lines Won't Help
Maybe if they demanded the messages all say "Hey sex1y viagr1 d3alz:," they would get more take-up.
March 30, 2005Alleged Spammer Goes Belly-Up
OptInRealBig.com, a Colorado company that sends 15 million email messages a day, has been forced into bankruptcy by lawsuits from Microsoft and the New York Attorney General's office.
March 16, 2005Spam-To-Go Nets 2 Million Kroner FineFebruary 01, 2005Blaming CAN-SPAM for Junk Email
Some people think that the year-old law -- and its guidelines for sending legal spam -- are the reason that junk mail is more popular than ever.
January 11, 2005Verizon Blocks Email from UK, Parts of Europe
It would have been nice if they'd told their customers...
December 20, 2004BSA: 1 in 5 Brits Buy from SpamDecember 15, 2004MD Spam Law Unconstitutional
The statute was found to improperly regulate interstate commerce and was tossed by a state judge.
September 08, 2004Court to Hear First "Warspamming" Case
That long, ugly word means "finding an open wireless network and sending spam therefrom."
August 12, 2004555-SPAM Could Be Your Next Cellphone Number
A new bill may make it easier for cellphone spammers to send unsolicited text messages.
July 27, 2004Microsoft Wants to See Your ID
If you're sending mail to people using any of their services, that is. Its new anti-spam tools will require senders to verify their mail servers when trying to contact accounts maintained by Hotmail, MSN, or Microsoft.
July 19, 2004Microsoft Wins $4 Million from Spammer
A judge ordered the California man to pay $4 million after using the names of Microsoft products in his salty, canned email messages.
July 07, 2004U.N. Targets the "Disease" of Spam
Underneath the icky mixed metaphors, they're basically saying that unsolicited commercial email is bad, and that the U.N. is on the case.
June 30, 2004Comcast Now Serves 35% Less Spam
They had to block port 25 for all users, but it seems to be working. Until, of course, the spammers figure out that they should use a different port. Anyone care to guess how long it will take? Nobody?
June 21, 2004Technology Policy As Election Issue
Michael Geist's most recent column rates the political parties in Canada on copyright, spam, and other tech issues, as preparation for next week's election.
June 16, 2004FTC Says No to "Do Not Email" List
Pennywise spammers across the globe were disappointed to hear that the large, public database of valid email addresses would not be ready for the holidays.
June 07, 2004Some Fear New Law May Increase Spam
CAN-SPAM is supposed to trash spam, but some fear that it might actually put more junk in your email diet.
May 14, 2004Gag Removed from Anti-Spam Company
The restraining order against SpamCop was removed because the judge hadn't actually read some of the papers. Perhaps they got caught in her spam filter?
May 12, 2004(Alleged) Spammer Gets Restraining Order Against SpamCop
Scott Richter has obtained a temporary restraining order against SpamCop that bars them from making slanderous or libelous statements about his company. [PDF link to decision].
April 30, 2004Four Face Criminal Charges Under CAN-SPAM
The cases are the first to be filed under the new law's criminal provisions.
Half of EU Ignores Own Anti-Spam Directive
EU states claim that the directive won't actually stop spam, so they haven't bothered implementing it. If only they would apply the same wisdom to the EU's new anti-piracy directive...
March 19, 2004Survey Says Spam Not Yet Canned
However, one might argue that steady levels of spam are better than the previously *rising* levels.
March 12, 2004Singapore Considers Anti-Spam Law
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