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InternetNews December 20, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC: CAN-SPAM Is Working With a big helping hand from technology, the Federal Trade Commission say spam volume is declining. But are spammers staying away?
InternetNews July 8, 2004 Jim Wagner	Experts Question UN's Anti-Spam Plan Wiping spam from the planet within two years is not going to happen, industry experts predict.
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Spam Summit Kicks Off Officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the British Office of Fair Trading hosted the first international meeting of spam enforcement agencies today in London.
InternetNews March 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Washington Beefs Up Can Spam The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States' first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Experts Clarify ISP Spam Threat A recent surge in spam originating from ISP e-mail servers has the industry roiled, but an e-mail industry 'meltdown' isn't imminent.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study.
PC World September 2003 Anne Kandra	Consumer Watch: Are You Helping a Spammer? Bad guys can hijack your PC and use it to transmit trash with impunity.
Salon.com June 8, 2001 Damien Cave	A spam cop goes AWOL The ORBS blacklist, a controversial tool for stopping unsolicited e-mail, is suddenly inaccessible...
InternetNews April 19, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Calls for International Anti-Spam Efforts The Federal Trade Commission joined 29 other countries today in calling for increased cooperation between nations in combating spam.
InternetNews April 29, 2004 Roy Mark	Feds Can Spammers Under New Act Federal authorities use Can Spam to raid prolific Michigan spam operation, which specialized in spoofing to hawk bogus diet patches.
PC World August 2002 Daniel Tynan	Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Image-Based Spam a Server Threat With spam now embedded in graphics files, e-mail servers are getting creamed.
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Do-Not-Spam List Great For Spammers After a six-month study, the FTC updates Congress on the National Do Not E-Mail registry. Hint: It's not a good thing.
InternetNews July 5, 2005 Jim Wagner	China Joins Spam Fight China is throwing its weight behind an international anti-spam coalition of government agencies and private sector organizations to combat unwanted e-mail messages.
InternetNews June 7, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, May 2004 The spam volume remains unchanged over the month, but Internet users don't have reason to celebrate, as the plateau is not indicative of an imminent decline in unwanted messages.
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Hit Porn E-Mail Ring With Can Spam Law Armed with new rules to supplement the Can Spam Act, the Federal Trade Commission has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography-related spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia.
PC World April 2004 Tom Spring	Spam Wars Rage The new federal antispam law doesn't seem to be working. Will anything stop the e-mail onslaught?
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
InternetNews May 20, 2004 Janis Mara	CAN-SPAM Gets Mixed Reviews in Senate Testimony Five months on, the anti-spam measure is far from an unqualified success.
InternetNews February 24, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Viruses Blamed for Expected 80% Spam Saturation by Q3 Spam is expected to make up 80 percent of all email by the third-quarter of this year. And analysts blame it largely on the open proxies created by viruses, like Sobig and MyDoom.
New Architect August 2002 Bret A. Fausett	Blind Vigilantes Blackhole lists offer dark prospects for those unfairly judged to be spammers.
InternetNews July 29, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Think Globally, Block Locally Experts at international anti-spam conference argue whether law or technology is the best way to solve the junk mail problem.
AskMen.com May 7, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Avoid Spam E-mail Rest assured there are things the little people can do to overcome that quagmire. Read on to find out how you can modify your surfing behavior to minimize the risk of a spam invasion.
InternetNews January 26, 2006 Brian Livingston	More Ways to Protect Your E-Mail Spammers are cranking up their output every day. But anti-spammers are gaining more tools to defeat them.
InternetNews February 4, 2005 Jim Wagner	Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs Spamhaus Project blasts ISP over hosting policy. MCI counters that it's not in the business of censoring Internet content.
InternetNews March 10, 2004 Roy Mark	Major E-Mail Providers Bare Can Spam Teeth AOL, EarthLink, Yahoo! and Microsoft use new federal law to go after kingpin spammers.
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft: CSI for the FTC Redmond crime-stoppers do forensics work to help the FTC charge X-rated spammers.
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews April 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Are Due For A Surprise Unspam knows where you are. Here comes the lawsuit.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Proposes Adult Spam Labels A subject-line requirement for sexually explicit e-mail is the first of several FTC mandates under new Can Spam Act.
InternetNews January 14, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	ISPs Unite Against Spam A new group, led by Openwave, aims to develop practices and technology to slow the flow of network-choking spam.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Selena Maranjian	An End to Spam? We may be rejoicing in 2006, thanks to Bill Gates. Gates alluded to a "magic solution" that his team is working on to address the problem of unwanted email, or spam. Better still, he expects this solution to be in place soon.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Janis Mara	Can-Spam Conference: How to Comply with a "Total Failure" Experts slammed Can-Spam at Spam and the Law conference -- while helping marketers comply with the act.
BusinessWeek August 11, 2003 Lorraine Woellert	Out, Out, Damned Spam Junk e-mail accounts for roughly half of all network traffic. Here are five ways to beat it back
InternetNews July 16, 2010	U.S. Snags Dubious Honor of Spam Leader The United States has again landed atop the list of countries that relay spam e-mail messages, according to software-security vendor Sophos, while the United Kingdom gains some ground.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	The Red, White and Blue of Spam Nothing has changed since the Federal Can-Spam Act became law except that more of it seems to becoming from the U.S., according to one industry player's report.
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Roy Mark	Big Spam Bust, Texas Style State files multi-million dollar lawsuit against two of the nation's largest e-mail operators.
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InternetNews August 20, 2004 Jim Wagner	A Day in the Life of a Spammer Bulk e-mail provider looking for sympathy, finds he can't even disclose his real name.
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