ISPs Win Spam Lawsuits | CNET News.com Two major Internet service providers have managed to block junk email company Cyber Promotions from sending unsolicited email to their members. News.com http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,10426,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
Spam Buster Delete junk email before it gets into your mailbox. Useful utility featured in PC Magazine works with POP email to help keep spam under control. http://members.aol.com/contplus4/spambuster/index.htm
Extractions: Spam Buster Rated by ZDNet! Windows 95/98/NT utility designed to help you get rid of that annoying, unsolicited junk e-mail that can clutter up your mailbox. Due to the popularity of the internet and the low cost of sending out advertisements, we are now awash in a flood of junk e-mail. Rather than ban the transmission of such e-mail (which can get into rather thorny first amendment issues) at the source, it is our feeling that we can use technology to help eliminate junk e-mail at the target (that is, your machine). Spam Buster is not an e-mail program, however, it works great in conjunction with the major e-mail programs. Run Spam Buster before your e-mail program as the first line of defense against the junk. Then from Spam Buster you can launch into your e-mail program to retrieve and read the e-mail that you wish to read after cleaning up the junk mail. Since Spam Buster does NOT download the entire message it is much quicker than using your normal e-mail program which will actually have to retrieve the entire message including any attachments. It will delete that junk from your POP account before it gets to your mail program. Then in your mail program you will have a clean set of messages waiting for you after running Spam Buster. Not only will it flag junk e-mail, it will allow you to delete any message you wish simply by marking it.
Address Munging FAQ: Spam-Blocking Your Email Address How to spam-block ("munge") your email address.Category Computers Internet Abuse spam PreventingAddress Munging FAQ spamBlocking Your email Address. This FAQ isintended to be a concise discourse on spam-blocking . Otherwise http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
Extractions: Spam-Blocking Your Email Address This FAQ is intended to be a concise discourse on "spam-blocking". Otherwise known as "munging", or breaking one's email address, this is usually done when posting to Usenet, for the purposes of avoiding junk email. It is very important to "mung" in ways that minimize possible damage to third parties. Contact the author/maintainer emailfaq@aol.com Basics Who is responsible for this FAQ? What is the purpose of this FAQ? When was this FAQ last updated?
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Spam Buster By Contact Plus Corporation An email filtering utility. It deletes junk from a POP account. It can check up to twelve accounts, and notifies when new mail arrives. The registered version removes advertisements. Win95/98/Me/NT/2000 http://www.contactplus.com/products/spam/spam.htm
Extractions: Alternate site 1.4 MB See it: Spam Buster Overview FAQ's: Frequently Asked Questions Featured in PC Magazine May 7, 2002 Client Side Anti Spam Tools Brett Glass states Spam Buster "... does not have to download the entire message from your mailbox, which makes it faster than [the competitors], and also prevents a server that removes mail once it's been retrieved from deleting mail that's been checked before you actually download it. Featured in Time Magazine July 30, 2001 Don't Swallow the Spam Chris Taylor states Spam Buster is "... a leading software tool...[that] tap[s] quietly into your e-mail server every few minutes to check new messages against a blacklist of known spammers and subject lines. I was impressed by the range of their databases."
Wired News: Net Advocates Take The Pulse Of Spam Three groups want to help the FTC make sensible Internet rules with a survey about one of the most annoying features of digital life junk email. Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,3328,00.html
Extractions: 06:03 PM Apr. 22, 1997 PT How much time people spend sifting through junk email and how much patience they have for this new bargain-basement marketing technique is being gauged by three Net advocacy groups that will present their findings to the Federal Trade Commission in June. "We are putting the information together in a way that we hope will help the FTC make an informed decision on how to deal with spamming," said Scott Brower, executive director of Electronic Frontiers Florida . The group is conducting the spamming survey online with the Voters Telecommunication Watch and Electronic Frontier Foundation in Austin, Texas. Between 50 to 100 individuals and Internet service providers have responded to the informal survey since it was posted on the VTW site last Tuesday. Comments on the results will be filed with the FTC in May and discussed at agency hearings in June. The survey asks how much spamming costs users and ISPs in time and money, how annoying they find it, and what steps they take, if any, to eliminate it from in boxes. "Resolving the spam issue is a very delicate balance of different factors, including how people are using email and the protection of free commercial speech - not to mention the free flow of information on the Net," said Shabbir Safdar, co-founder of the
Cyberspace Law - Unsolicited E-mail Links. Axel Boldt, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers WWW. Robert Braver, TheSpam Page WWW. Bright Light WWW. Internet email Marketing Council WWW. http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/spam.html
Extractions: Cases ... Gene Barton, Comment, Taking a Byte out of Crime: E-Mail Harassment and the Inefficacy of Existing Law, 70 Wash. L. Rev. 465 (1995) Lexis Westlaw Jonathan Byrne, Squeezing Spam Off the Net: Federal Regulation of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, WWW Michael W. Carroll, Garbage In: Emerging Media and Regulation of Unsolicited Commercial Solicitations, 11 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 233 (1996) WWW Westlaw Enforcement of Use Limitations by Internet Service Providers: "How to Stop That Hacker, Cracker, Spammer, Spoofer, Flamer, Bomber," Westlaw Joshua A. Marcus, Note, Commercial Speech on the Internet: Spam and the First Amendment, Lexis Westlaw David K. McGraw, Sexual Harassment in Cyberspace: The Problem of Unwelcome E-mail
Wired News: Senate Embraces Spam Bill Much to the dismay of antispam crusaders, the Senate hearing on a controversial measure to control bulk email turns into a love-fest. By Deborah Scoblionkov. Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,13080,00.html
Extractions: 05:03 AM Jun. 18, 1998 PT The Senate passed an anti-slamming bill last month that included an amendment, sponsored by Senators Frank Murkowski and Robert Torricelli, to regulate spam by requiring bulk email senders to correctly identify themselves and honor requests to be removed from their mailing lists. On Wednesday, the Senate Subcommittee on Communications held a post facto hearing on the issue. The hearing was described by the seven-member panel's lone dissenter, Ray Everett-Church of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, or CAUCE , as "a Murkowski/Torricelli love fest." Most of the hearing's participants slammed spam scams and hailed the amendment as a "first step" to eliminate electronic fraud. Many critics, however, regard Senate Bill 1618 as a step backward. In contrast to the anti-slam bill, which protects consumers by outlawing the practice of switching long-distance providers, the Murkowski/Torricelli amendment is largely viewed as anti-consumer and pro-spam by the Internet community. The problem, say critics, is that the rider would legitimize bulk email and encourage businesses to test it, as long as they meet the criteria of a valid return address and a remove list. Every one of the nations' 20 million businesses would have "one shot" at every consumer's mailbox, critics say.
AOL Spam Threat Rescinded | CNET News.com A small group of bulk emailers has reneged on its boisterous threat to post online 5 million America Online email addresseswhich was to be in protest of the online service's antispam policy. News.com http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17784,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
Email Bombing And Spam General overview of problems associated with electronic mail bombing and email spamming. It includes information that will help you respond to and recover from this activity. http://www.ja.net/CERT/CERT-CC/tech_tips/email_bombing_spamming
Anti-Spam! This helps to place many invalid email addresses that won't help spammers(they will get more returned email ;) and is our effort to FIGHT spam. http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html
Extractions: The purpose of this page is to make it so that spammers who attempt to collect email addresses off the web through programs will not have real email addresses in their database, causing them trouble because they will have to clean out their list. This page has one hundred randomly generated email addresses (reload and new ones will appear). At the bottom of the page is a link to this page again, essentially reloading it for programs to collect more fake email addresses. Email collecting programs will be sent in an infinite loop by following the link at the bottom of the page and will get more and more fake email addresses stuck in their databases. This helps to place many invalid email addresses that won't help spammers (they will get more returned email ;) and is our effort to FIGHT SPAM Want to help with the effort? When a spammer's program visits your web page, they will check all the pages that you link to for email addresses. So all you have to do is link to this page so that whenever a spammer's program scans your page, they will be sucked into this one. To link to this page, just use this simple code:
Extractions: MORE EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Spam and other commercial messages are throttling email's simple appeal. And no-one is offering a credible remedy. By David Walker Email marketing has soared back into favor as the US anthrax scare starts Americans worrying about opening envelopes. But that favoritism won't last. Because effective email marketing - and email of all sorts - is being squeezed by new waves of unsolicited "spam" email sweeping through inboxes the world over. Internet users are spending ever-increasing amounts of time weeding out invitations to "Work from the Comfort of Your Home!!!!", "See Hot Young Teens!" and "Increase Your Muscle Strength". My personal inbox favorites include the email message from Mr Sander Yuan at Chnze Electric Equipments Co. in Shanghai, soliciting expressions of interest in "nylon binging ties" and trumpeting his "experiences of exported our products to East-south Asia". Mr Yuan's email came to me from a colleague who works in marketing, with a wry, frustrated comment on the wonderful efficiency of "targeted email advertising". You know email marketing has struck trouble when even marketers broadcast their hatred of it.
Wired News: Virginia Passes Anti-Spam Bill The governor says he'll sign the legislation, which would make sending junk email a crime and include stiff punitive penalties. AOL likes it; the ACLU doesn't. Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18097,00.html
Extractions: 07:35 AM Feb. 24, 1999 PT Lawmakers in Virginia, home to Internet behemoth America Online, have adopted legislation that would make it a crime to spam. The bill, which Governor James Gilmore has promised to sign, would make Virginia the first state able to criminally prosecute people accused of sending mass unsolicited email. The measure, passed Tuesday, would have far-reaching implications because so much of data carried on the Internet flows through the state. The American Civil Liberties Union said it expected to challenge the anti-spamming bill on constitutional grounds. A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley said that Earley would defend the new law. "Spam is a scourge on legitimate Internet commerce," Earley spokesman David Botkins said. "This legislation is crucial to the high-tech business community, and Attorney General Earley is prepared to help with its enforcement, where appropriate."
Panix Help System - Email Spam Responding to Unsolicited Commercial email (UCE, email spam ). Overthe past year, a sharp increase of unsolicited email, primarily http://www.panix.com/e-spam.html
Wired News: Well-Done Spam Cooked Pac Bell's Email Several large, coinciding spams, originating from AT T WorldNet and CompuServe, were blamed for last month's unprecedented interruption in Pacific Bell Internet's mail service, the ISP says. Typical spam, untypical impact, observers say. Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,11684,00.html
Extractions: 12:15 PM Apr. 15, 1998 PT After analyzing an overload of email that hobbled its email service last month , Pacific Bell Internet Services concluded that several large coinciding spams were to blame. Though not coordinated or especially unique as spam goes, the timing and size of the bulk emails were able to score a direct hit on the ISP's mail servers. "The sizes of the spams were all different, but they were fairly large, and they hit at more or less the same time," said Ruben Cota, Pacific Bell's Internet vice president. In mid-March, Pacific Bell Internet Services saw an unprecedented load of spam over the course of four days, causing heavy, sporadic disruptions of email service to its more than 175,000 California customers. While there's nothing unusual about large amounts of spam flying around, its scope was notable in this case, said J.D. Falk, board member of
Email Outage On MSN | CNET News.com spammers aren't the only ones the Microsoft Network has been blocking since it spamproofed its servers. News.com http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,25225,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
Email Meltdowns Haunt Holidays | CNET News.com Small and mediumsized businesses that use GTE for Internet services have been experiencing problems with email since Monday night, when spam took down the system for a day, according to GTE. News.com http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,17658,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
Hotmail Porn Spam Reported | CNET News.com According to conventional wisdom, free email services were created for members to send and receive personal messages, not for sending out pornography ads for free. But that's apparently what some Netizens say happened with Hotmail, one of the leading free email providers. News.com http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,11773,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
TheGlobe.com Hosts Spam Debate | CNET News.com Online community TheGlobe.com used the Net as a platform for debate at its interactive conference on issues surrounding unsolicited commercial email. News.com http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,23813,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh