San Francisco Chronicle: Court upholds anti-spam law / Unsolicited e-mail not protected, judges say - In a victory to thrill anyone annoyed by the "spam" that clogs e-mail accounts, an appellate court has upheld the constitutionality of California's tough 1998 law regulating unwanted commercial messages. San Francisco Chronicle: Spam going mobile - Fight is on to keep unwanted text ads off cell phones. 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. Christian Science Monitor: War on e-mail spam ratchets up in courts, legislatures | csmonitor.com - A lawsuit against spam on the Internet is part of a larger effort to control the proliferation of unsolicited e-mail. donga.com: 4 Million Won Penalty to 5 Companies Distributed `Spam mails` Indiscrimately. - 5 companies including adult broadcasting companies and shopping malls that have sent `Spam mails` ignoring the rejection of the receivers were imposed to correctional fines. donga.com: Spam Mail with False Title to be Punished - The person who sends e-mails without an indication of advertisement or containing false exaggerated ads will be punished of suspension of business license or criminal punishment from May. donga.com: Compulsory Notice of `Adult Advertisement` for Sexual Spam Mails - The advertising mails containing bad things for juveniles like sexual and violent contents should attach the notice of `Ads for Adults` to the title from July. 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. 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. BBC News: Getting Tough On Spam - Unsolicited e-mail is becoming a problem for users and internet service providers. BBC News: New York takes on 'spam' e-mail - Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch, state attorney general Elliot Spitzer sues MonsterHut.com for sending millions of 'spam' e-mail adverts. 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". 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. San Francisco Chronicle: Spam stampede clogs Internet - Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet. BBC News: Using the net to catch junk mail - A Napster-like network might be able to stem the tide of spam mail messages flooding the internet. BBC News: Nigeria grapples with e-mail scams - The Nigerian authorities declare war on the growing of number of fraudsters who use cyber cafes to send out phoney e-mails. BBC News: Hotmail puts squeeze on spam - Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address. andersja: Spam, Hype and SpamAssassin - An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin. BBC: E-mail makes surfers emotional - According to US-based net think-tank the Nielsen Norman Group, people can have highly emotional reactions to e-mail newsletters. 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. BBC: Spam poses threat to privacy - Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam. 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. BBC News: Why one spam could cost $50 - A US law firm has become the hero of the common people for its decision to take on the spam merchants who wage guerrilla warfare on our e-mail inboxes, offering everything from sex to cars and easy money to psychic readings. Christian Science Monitor: 'White lists' emerge as a tool for consumers in fight against spam - Americans are discovering that the broad effort to fight spam can backfire. BBC News: US workers spared junk e-mails - Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US workers, despite the growing number of junk e-mails promoting get-rich-quick scams or pornographic websites, says a report. BBC News: The web bites back - Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use. E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam - The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday. Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal - The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed. ABCNEWS.com: New Ways to Can Spam E-mail - New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks. USA Today: E-mail avalanche even buries CEOs Take some tips from harried chief executives who are drowning in it - In the three seconds it takes to read this sentence, more than a half-million e-mails will land in in-boxes. By 2005, nearly that many will land each second. The e-mail avalanche knows no rank. The Register: AOL wins $7m in porn spam case - AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam. The Register: Anti-spam filters kill legitimate emails - Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails. The Register: Where the heck is all this spam coming from? - The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago. The Register: Hotmail, Yahoo! erect roadblocks for spam sign-ons - Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam. CNET.com: Consumer groups fight spam epidemic - A coalition of consumer groups plans to ask the federal government to rescue people from the deluge of unwanted commercial mail that clogs their inboxes and sucks up their time. CNET.com: Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch - Some Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices, comparing the company's revised policy to an open invitation to spam. CNET.com: Spam suit rings on Sprint - Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages, or spam, in violation of a recently enacted state statute. CNET: Fat times for spam - In September, more than 17 percent of all e-mail traveling across the Internet could be classified as spam, according to data collected by UK e-mail service provider MessageLabs. The company's figures are presented in its latest monthly report. CNET.com: Anti-spam Group Bocks Yahoo Stores - An anti-spam group has put Yahoo's storefronts on its list of suspected junk e-mailers, snarling attempts by some customers to access the storefronts. CNET: Spam doesn't kill appetite for e-mail - Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for e-mail among U.S. workers, according to a new study on e-mail use in the workplace. CNET.com: EU body pushes spam guidelines - The European Parliament has signed off on sweeping guidelines for Internet regulation, including prohibiting spam and the use of cookies without the explicit permission from Web surfers. CNET: Spammers slipping ads through Windows - Spammers have co-opted an administration feature in Microsoft's Windows operating systems and are using it to bring up intrusive advertisements on Internet-connected computers. CNET.com: Marketing group scrapes off spam label - The Direct Marketing Association has created mandatory ground rules for members sending sales pitches via e-mail, a move designed to help avoid a government crackdown on commercial messages. CNET.com: Anti-spam service battles bugs - A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail. CNET.com: If it's spam, the message is "delete" - When Emily Sachar got back from vacation recently, she had an e-mail inbox full of hundreds of messages. Unfortunately, most of them were spam. CNET.com: Free speech or campaign spam? - California gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones is back online after his Web-hosting service shut down his campaign Internet site in protest over a mass e-mail that some outraged recipients compared to spam. CNET.com: AOL awarded millions in spam case - A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail operation, AOL said Monday. CNET.com: Start-up wants your help to fight spam - Ordinary Web surfers could play a major role in stemming the rising tide of junk e-mail crippling the Net, if a new anti-spam company hits its mark. CNET.com: Public access to FTC hurt by spam lists - When Josh Tinnin tried to send e-mail to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this month, he received an unwelcome surprise: He couldn't. CNET.com: You've got spam, and more spam - Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography, money-making schemes and health products, and there's little relief on the horizon. CNET.com: Groups seek federal action on spam - Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups said Wednesday. CNET.com: Congress, critics wrinkle noses at spam bills - Spam may be an unwanted staple in your in-box, but don't expect lawmakers to serve up new regulations anytime soon. CNET.com: Is your e-mail watching you? - Watch out--the spam choking your e-mail in-box may be loaded with software that lets marketers track your moves online, and you may not even be aware that you've been bugged. CNET: Spam: It's more than bulk e-mail - Consumers are increasingly applying the stigma of spam to marketing messages of all stripes, causing headaches for legitimate advertisers on the Web and beyond. CNET.com: Spam filter a career killer? - A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? Instant Messaging Planet: Mobile Spam Banned in Calif. - Governor Gray Davis signs a bill that will prohibit the sending of spam to mobile phones and pagers starting next year. 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? 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. Computerworld: Spam Wars - In the past year, spam has moved beyond personal e-mail accounts, invading business systems and graduating from societal pest to corporate enemy. Computerworld: Spam: Arriving en masse to an e-mail address near you - Shifting from daily nuisance to serious IT and business concern, uncontrolled spam is prompting customers to arm themselves with tools to fight back against productivity loss, potential liability and bandwidth-clogging consequences that unsolicited commercial e-mail can bring to an enterprise. Computerworld: Verizon settles lawsuit against spammer - The owner of a Detroit-based commercial e-mail company has agreed to a permanent injunction barring him from sending spam to customers of Verizon Online, a unit of Verizon Communications. Computerworld: Study: Amount of spam, virus-infected e-mails rising - A new report analyzing e-mail messages sent last month found that the problem of viruses and unsolicited e-mail continued to grow, hitting manufacturing, banking and finance, and health care particularly hard. Computerworld: Search goes on for ways to stop spam - At a Global Internet Project conference today, IT and government officials looked at ways to counter the spreading nuisance of unwanted e-mail. New Architect: A Tidal Wave Of Spam - Editorial. One man decides to give up on spam filtering. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Deceptive chain e-mails targeted - FTC goes after spam purveyors who peddle dubious schemes. seattlep-i.com: 'Spam' bill would require senders to include personal info - Unsolicited e-mail, also known as "spam," would become a thing of the past under a bill introduced by Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland. NPR - All Things Considered - Spam - A radio segment on "spam" with Jason Catlett, head of Junkbusters Corporation, which is a privacy advocacy firm. He talks about how spam works, how it makes its way around the world and why it's successful. Then a talk with Alan Ralsky, director of Creative Marketing Zone.