Thursday, October 30, 2003
US Senate cans Spam
The US Senate Wednesday passed the CAN Spam Act of 2003 with email tagging, and measures designed to stop anonymous and false return addresses. The Senate also called upon the FTC to set up a "Do Not Spam" list, although some experts wonder about its effectiveness.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33556.html
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3097451
The Register/Internetnews.com, Oct. 23, 2003
Posted by rrsimm @ 01:00 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Spammers Becoming More Brazen
Spammers are using virus-like methods to avoid blacklisting and get their messages into as many email in-boxes as possible in the shortest amount of time.
http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/3093411
Posted by rrsimm @ 08:14 AM EST [Link]
How spammers are targeting blogs
Webloggers are getting spam comments as posts in their blogs. Bill Thompson says they've been "flyblogged."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3210623.stm
BBC, Oct. 24, 2003
Posted by rrsimm @ 08:10 AM EST [Link]
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Spam 'turning people off e-mail'
25% of people said they use e-mail less because of junk messages, according to Pew Internet. As of May 2003, over 55% of e-mail is now spam. In a related story, California has fined a PR firm $2 million dollars for spamming.
http://www.NewsFactor.com/perl/story/22563.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3209189.stm
BBC/News Factor Network, Oct. 24, 2003
Posted by rrsimm @ 09:09 PM EST [Link]
