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| Mercury News: Good laws would limit junk, yet protect free speech
Spam, the junk e-mails pitching herbal Viagra, mortgage re-financing, pornography and countless other products and services, is flooding the mailboxes of millions of Internet users. Studies suggest the volume of spam has grown fivefold in the last year alone. Spam is more than an annoyance; it costs millions to users, businesses and Internet service providers. Unless stopped, the utility of e-mail itself could be threatened. (April 21, 2002) | | Mercury News: The ethics of spam: `There's lots of money in it'
A profilic spammer tells why he does it. (April 20, 2002) | | Mercury News: Weak anti-spam laws make fighting back hard
Everyone says they're getting more spam. But weak anti-spam laws and determined e-mailers make it hard to fight back on legal grounds. (April 20, 2002) | | MSNBC.com: Get rich quick? Not so fast
My, 1,189 unread messages in my Inbox. It's time to answer our e- mail. (2002.09.04) (September 4, 2002) | | MSNBC: Spam crackdown urged
Three consumer groups petitioned the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday to enact tougher rules regarding the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail, popularly known as spam. If the rule is enacted, the FTC could move swiftly to blunt the unrelenting assault that spam e-mails impose on the time and pocketbooks of consumers, the groups said. (September 4, 2002) | | MSNBC: Yahoo! sneaks in yet more spam
When Yahoo's instituted a privacy policy change this week, the firm reset all users' preferences so they would receive marketing pitches from the firm. (March 29, 2002) | | New Architect: A Tidal Wave Of Spam
Editorial. One man decides to give up on spam filtering. (August, 2002) | | New Architect:: Blind Vigilantes
Blackhole lists offer dark prospects. (August, 2002) | | Newsfactor: Fighting Spam: Legislation Won't Work
Passing anti-spam legislation, while perhaps well intended, is like passing a law against rain. Words on paper won't stop it. (December 30, 2002) | | Newsfactor: How To Shut Down Spam
Don't ever click on a remove link to remove your e-mail address from a list. (November 15, 2002) |
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