Search The Directory The Web for Home > Computers > Internet > Abuse > Spam > News > 2000 New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   New MSN feature encourages spamming friends - The latest test version of Microsoft's MSN Explorer is setting off sparks over a feature that converts MSN email accounts to Hotmail, as well as over an accompanying spam-like missive that encourages customers to send an advertisement-laden email to friends and colleagues. [CNET.com]   News: Spammers Hijack ISPs To Send Bogus Campaign Ads - ClickAction Inc. is working with the FBI and several ISPs to find the source of a series of 'spam' attacks that sent bogus political campaign e-mail messages via hijacked third party servers. [Computer User]   Oh Yum: There's More Spam - An analysis of data from an e-mail filtering firm shows that more inboxes are being targeted with more junk than ever before. [Wired]   One small victory for spammers ... - One great setback for mankind? A Washington state judge rules that state's tough law regulating junk e-mail is unconstitutional. [ZDNet]   Online Marketers Fighting Back - Yesmail wins an injunction preventing MAPS from adding its site to a spam blacklist. [apbnews.com]   Online Marketers Propose Spam Controls - In a bid to ward off U.S. government regulation, a coalition of online marketing heavyweights announced plans Monday to propose standards meant to ease consumer concerns about spam and online privacy. [E-Commerce Times]   Other Ways to Fry Spam - The Chickenboners and the Lumber Cartel are waging a war over your email box. [Wired]   PSINet assailed as spam contract surfaces - Troubled Internet service provider PSINet acknowledged providing access to a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email, bolstering critics' claims that some of the world's largest ISPs knowingly do business with spammers in violation of stated anti-spam policies. [CNET.com]   PSINet cans spammer, pledges reforms - Attempting to distance itself from a spam controversy, PSINet cut off service to an admitted sender of unsolicited commercial email and pledged to amend its spam policy and educate its sales force. [CNET.com]   PSINet caught red-handed with spam contract - Stumbling ISP PSINet has owned up to a contract with a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email - known to you and me as spam. [The Register]   PSINet caught red-handed with spam contract - Stumbling ISP PSINet has owned up to a contract with a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email - known to you and me as spam. [The Register]   Pa. Eyes Warning Labels for Cyber-Smut Spam - A Pennsylvania law requires e-mail containing adult content to be labeled. [apbnews.com]   Pollster loses restraining-order request in spamming case - A U.S. District Court judge turned down a request by Harris Interactive for a temporary restraining order that would have required the company to be removed from a list of e-mail spammers while a suit it filed is heard. [Computerworld]   Registrar Sues for Whois Spam - A domain name registrar has filed suit against a firm it claims illegally used its customer contact information in an aggressive marketing campaign of unsolicited email and phone calls. [Wired]   Report: E-Mail Marketing To Reach $7.3B by 2005 - Jupiter Communications released a report on Monday predicting that worldwide direct e-mail marketing will balloon from $164 million (US$) in 1999 to $7.3 billion in 2005. [E-Commerce Times]   Report: E-Mail Taking Hold as E-Commerce Tool - A survey released this week by Forrester Research, Inc. reports that e-tailers are now using electronic mail as a major means of generating repeat business from customers. [E-Commerce Times]   Setting Limits for 'Whois' Data - A dispute between a domain name registrar and a Web hosting company could set legal limits on accessing and using personal information on Internet whois databases. [Wired]   Slamming the Door on Spam - A group of large email marketing companies proposed a detailed set of privacy standards Monday, hoping the measures will amount to a sort of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" for Internet direct advertisers. [Wired]   Spam 2000 - Have you noticed how junk e-mail or spam has crept into our lives to the extent that the complaining about it is waning? This is a bad thing. It means we are beginning to let spam become part of the societal and Web fabric. There has to be a way to eliminate spam without resorting to manual e-mail filtering. [ZDNet]   Spam Strikes Back - Do marketers have the right to flood the e-mail boxes of unsuspecting Internet users with unwanted e-mail, otherwise known as spam? One Washington state judge has effectively said yes -- and has sparked an instant debate about the constitutionality of laws that limit the use of spam. [E-Commerce Times]     [ 1 2 3 4 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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