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| PSINet assailed as spam contract surfaces
Troubled Internet service provider PSINet acknowledged providing access to a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email, bolstering critics' claims that some of the world's largest ISPs knowingly do business with spammers in violation of stated anti-spam policies. [CNET.com] (November 6, 2000) | | PSINet cans spammer, pledges reforms
Attempting to distance itself from a spam controversy, PSINet cut off service to an admitted sender of unsolicited commercial email and pledged to amend its spam policy and educate its sales force. [CNET.com] (November 8, 2000) | | PSINet caught red-handed with spam contract
Stumbling ISP PSINet has owned up to a contract with a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email - known to you and me as spam. It has long been a suspicion that some ISPs have had illicit contracts with spammers, despite a publicly stated policy against such practices. [The Register] (November 7, 2000) | | Registrar Sues for Whois Spam
A domain name registrar has filed suit against a firm it claims illegally used its customer contact information in an aggressive marketing campaign of unsolicited email and phone calls. [Wired] (August 3, 2000) | | Report: E-Mail Marketing To Reach $7.3B by 2005
Jupiter Communications released a report on Monday predicting that worldwide direct e-mail marketing will balloon from $164 million (US$) in 1999 to $7.3 billion in 2005. [E-Commerce Times] (May 9, 2000) | | Report: E-Mail Taking Hold as E-Commerce Tool
A survey released this week by Forrester Research, Inc. reports that e-tailers are now using electronic mail as a major means of generating repeat business from customers. [E-Commerce Times] (March 9, 2000) | | Setting Limits for 'Whois' Data
A dispute between a domain name registrar and a Web hosting company could set legal limits on accessing and using personal information on Internet whois databases. [Wired] (August 4, 2000) | | Slamming the Door on Spam
A group of large email marketing companies proposed a detailed set of privacy standards Monday, hoping the measures will amount to a sort of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" for Internet direct advertisers. [Wired] (October 25, 2000) | | Spam Strikes Back
Do marketers have the right to flood the e-mail boxes of unsuspecting Internet users with unwanted e-mail, otherwise known as spam? One Washington state judge has effectively said yes -- and has sparked an instant debate about the constitutionality of laws that limit the use of spam. [E-Commerce Times] (March 17, 2000) | | Spam Warfare
Blacklists, lawsuits, hate sites. Bulk e-mail is never a dull business. [Forbes] (September 18, 2000) |
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