Search The Directory The Web for Home > Computers > Internet > Abuse > Spam > News > 2001 New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   'Spam' Costs Internet Users EUR 10 Billion a Year - Study - Internet subscribers across the world are unwittingly paying an estimated EUR 10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive junk e-mails or 'spam', according to a study undertaken for the European Commission. [EU Business]   After Spam, Baloney to Swallow - The folks who bring you such e-mail favorites as "QUIT YOUR JOB TOMORROW" and "LOSE WEIGHT NOW" have suddenly noticed that lawmakers nationwide are considering new rules to protect privacy on the Internet. So Internet-related businesses have launched a frantic lobbying campaign to derail the train before it builds up a head of steam. [LA Times]   Backlash for the blacklist - Skinny DuBaud's take on the demise of former spam relay blacklister ORBS. [C-NET]   Bill aims to block wireless junk email - In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? [CNET.com]   Data protection: "Junk" e-mail costs internet users 10 billion a year worldwide - Internet subscribers world-wide are unwittingly paying an estimated €10 billion a year in connection costs just to receive "junk" e-mails, according to a study undertaken for the European Commission.   E-Mail Scammer Targets AOL Users - Update - Investigators at America Online are attempting to track down a suspected scammer who sent e-mails this morning to an as yet undetermined number of AOL subscribers, informing them they had won a prize in a random selection.   EBay E-mail Makes Users 'Bidder' - Auction site eBay has apparently decided that users of its service who said no really meant yes. So, in an attempt to "help" its users, the company has informed many of them, by e-mail, that their marketing preferences were automatically being changed. [Wired]   Europe warms to spam ban - Lobbyists for the European Internet industry believe their campaign for a ban on spam is gaining momentum. [The Register]   Evil spammers jailed for two years - Two Los Angeles men are to go to jail for their part in a bulk email scam which duped 12,000 people and severely impacted the operations of several large US ISPs. [The Register]   Hotmail spam filters block outgoing e-mail - Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. [CNET.com]   Infamous Spammer Spammed - In what some see as a perfect example of the evidence of cosmic retribution, an avalanche of spam has crashed British Internet service provider Pipex's servers, and stopped delivery of e-mail to its million-plus users for the past week. [Wired]   Media3 Loses Bid for Injunction Against RBL Listing - MAPS will continue to list IP addresses held by Media3 Technologies in MAPS' Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The Federal District Court in Boston turned down Media3's request. [MAPS Press Release]   New Battle Strategies Heat Up War On Spam - Some say the only way to stop the spread of e-mail Spam is to charge e-mail users a fee -- but the strategy has failed to stem the tide of regular junk mail. [NewsFactor]   New Fees Expected for Online Marketing - Portals and Internet service providers (ISPs) are going to start charging online marketers for the massive volume of e-mail being sent across the Web, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Research. [NewsFactor]   Official: Spam costs E10 billion - Spam costs Net users a whopping E10 billion ($9.33 billion) a year, according to the European Commission. [The Register]   Rep. Goodlatte Intros Anti-Spam Bill - Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., on Wednesday introduced a bill that promises criminal penalties for Internet users who falsify their e-mail addresses to send unsolicited commercial e-mail (or "spam") to other users. [Yahoo]   S.D. men face felony counts, a rarity, in e-mail 'spamming' - In the never-ending war on junk e-mail, two San Diego County men accused of "spamming" are the first to face felony criminal charges in California. [SignOn San Diego]   Spam Costs Users $9.4 Billion - Unsolicited e-mail costs Internet subscribers worldwide 10 million euros - $9.4 billion - in connection costs every year, according to a new study released by the European Union's executive arm, the European Commission. [Mobile Computing & Communications]   Spam Oozes Past Border Patrol - Last week, Reps. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) and Gene Green (D-Texas) reintroduced a bill they claimed "empowers consumers and their ISP with the ability to protect both their privacy and their resources" by restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail. [Wired]   Spam filters may feed Web marketing - Some popular free Web services are playing both sides of the fence when it comes to protecting consumers from pesky marketers, offering to block junk e-mail while they help advertisers push promotions into customers' in-boxes. 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