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 | SF Gate: Spam attacks growing
According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 million last month. (July 15, 2002) |  | SF Gate: Spam indigestion worsens
So I get back after taking a week off and find my office e-mail basket spilling over with more than 700 messages. Several dozen were legitimate missives from readers and whatnot, and the rest . . . well, you know where I'm going with this. (October 9, 2002) |  | Slashdot: As the Spam Turns
The SBL has added Verio's corporate mail servers to its blocklist which protects nearly 100 million mailboxes, because of the number of spam gangs on the Verio network. Verio also provides connectivity to AS26212, a collection of 9 of the most notorious spammers netblocks. AS26212 is also connected to he.net and bbnplanet.net. (November 17, 2002) |  | Slashdot: Australian Spammer Sues Back
We've all heard the one about the spammers begin sued. Now, an Ausie spammer is suing back, for being blacklisted. Claiming damages and equipment replacement costs and so on. The whole article is over at Yahoo. So, I guess now, not only are we subjected to the spam, but we can't block it either? (May 30, 2002) |  | smh.com.au: Sun goes down on man of words
Green describes these electronic messages as "a little ray of sunshine". It irritates him that some of the recipients can't see the light. They regard Green's sunshine as spam, get mad as hell, and send him responses that are "threatening, abusive, filthy-minded, arrogant, quite offensive, and when you consider what I've sent out is philosophical, enlightening and positive, I guess they are not ready for it". (July 26, 2002) |  | Telepolis: European Parliament to come to crucial vote on spam
"Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs" asks European Parliament to force the floodgates wide open for spam. (May 25, 2002) |  | The Age: E-mail users want spam off the menu
Spam, spam, spam, spam! In Monty Python's day, it was comical, but today the unavoidable excess of spam has gone way beyond a joke. (October 16, 2002) |  | The Age: Spam, the plague giving the Net indigestion
If you already get too much junk e-mail, you'll get twice as much by New Year - and at the moment there is little anyone can do to stop it. No wonder consumers rate it their worst computer problem. (August 1, 2002) |  | The Age: The dangers of spam SMS
You can get paid to receive ads on your mobile, but it might burst the spam dam, writes Nicole Manktelow. (April 5, 2002) |  | The Age: The Plague
On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and their nemesis, junk mail activists, will be fought out in a courtroom, where a landmark judgement is expected to influence the future of direct marketing over the Internet. (October 11, 2002) |
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