 | A Third of Work E-Mail Wastes Time
A new study finds at least 34 percent of e-mail messages at work contain irrelevant information. [ABCNEWS.com] (April 20, 2001) |
 | Anti-spam group makes up with pollster
A controversial anti-spam group agrees to remove a polling and market research firm from its database of suspected junk e-mailers. [C|Net] (August 22, 2001) |
 | Apocryphal E-Mail Bedevils Va. Sender
She meant well. That's what Rose Lambert tells herself every morning when her e-mail folder begins to bulge with missives from around the globe, and she starts to slip again into her deep, private hell. [Washington Post] (May 17, 2001) |
 | Backlash for the blacklist
Skinny DuBaud's take on the demise of former spam relay blacklister ORBS. [C-NET] (June 8, 2001) |
 | BBC News: EU laws target junk mail spam
Consumers across Europe who have been plagued by junk e-mails and phone messages are being told that new laws are on the way to control them. (December 12, 2001) |
 | Bill aims to block wireless junk email
In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? [CNET.com] (January 10, 2001) |
 | Can Spam Ever Be Stopped?
Activists decry a loophole in proposed U.S. anti-spam laws that would allow each spammer to send one unsolicited e-mail before an ISP could take action against the spammer. [E-Commerce Times] (May 14, 2001) |
 | CNET.com: Inside the spammer's world
Recent court decisions upholding laws against unsolicited e-mails will increasingly focus attention on a few individuals who send out the majority of such unwanted advertising messages. (June 29, 2001) |
 | CNN: Euro ministers agree on spam 'n' cookies
European telecommunication ministers have agreed that unsolicited e-mail and wireless text messages should be prohibited under a new data protection law. (December 7, 2001) |
 | Data protection: "Junk" e-mail costs internet users 10 billion a year worldwide
Internet subscribers world-wide are unwittingly paying an estimated €10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive "junk" e-mails, according to a study undertaken for the European Commission. (February 2, 2001) |
