2000 News and Media Spam E-mail

Internet service providers and permission-based marketing agencies are up in arms about the government's decision not to regulate against unsolicited commercial email or spam, as it's more commonly known. [Media Guardian] [Requires free registration.]

• ISPs find spam verdict hard to swallow - Internet service providers and permission-based marketing agencies are 2000 up in 2000 arms about the government\\'s decision not 2000 to regulate against unsolicited 2000 commercial email or spam, 2000 as it\\'s more commonly known. [Media 2000 Guardian] [Requires 2000 free registration.]
• eBay To Get $1.2M in Spam Settlement - eBay, Inc. said it will get $1.2 million 2000 (US$) under news and media a lawsuit settlement with ReverseAuction.com, Inc., 2000 which had been accused news and media of illegally obtaining eBay 2000 user IDs and addresses in order news and media to send 2000 them unwanted and misleading e-mail. [E-Commerce Times]
• PSINet caught red-handed with spam contract - Stumbling ISP PSINet has owned up to a contract with 2000 a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email - known to 2000 you and me as spam. It has long been a 2000 suspicion that some ISPs have had illicit contracts with spammers, 2000 despite a publicly stated policy agains
• PSINet assailed as spam contract surfaces - Troubled Internet service provider PSINet acknowledged providing access to a 2000 sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email, bolstering critics\\' claims that 2000 some of the world\\'s largest ISPs knowingly do business with 2000 spammers in violation of stated anti-spam
• Oh Yum: There's More Spam - An analysis of data from an e-mail filtering 2000 firm shows news and media that more inboxes are being targeted 2000 with more junk than news and media ever before. [Wired]
• PSINet cans spammer, pledges reforms - Attempting to distance itself from a spam controversy, 2000 PSINet cut spam off service to an admitted sender 2000 of unsolicited commercial email spam and pledged to amend 2000 its spam policy and educate its spam sales force. 2000 [CNET.com]
• MAPS Wins First-Round in Spam Case - A judge Tuesday denied Harris Interactive\\'s request for news and media news and media a temporary restraining order that would have forced news and media news and media anti-spam organization Mail Abuse Prevention System to remove news and media news and media the online researcher from its "Realtime Blackhole List." news and media news and media [InternetNews]
• AOL spammer pleads guilty to forgery - A man who spammed millions of AOL subscribers news and media news and media with pornography and get-rich-quick schemes has pleaded guilty news and media news and media to second-degree forgery in a US District court. news and media news and media [The Register]
• IKEA enlists friends for email publicity - Home furnishing retailer IKEA has a new spin spam on spam, spam recruiting friends of friends to get spam the word out about spam its new store opening spam in the San Francisco Bay area. spam [CNET.com]
• Report: E-Mail Marketing To Reach $7.3B by 2005 - Jupiter Communications released a report on Monday predicting that worldwide spam direct e-mail marketing will balloon from $164 million (US$) in spam 1999 to $7.3 billion in 2005. [E-Commerce Times]
• Spam Warfare - Blacklists, lawsuits, hate sites. Bulk e-mail is never news and media 2000 a dull business. [Forbes]
• Spammer Pays Up at EBay - ReverseAuction has agreed to pay $1.2 million and 2000 to quit 2000 harvesting emails from eBay\\'s site as 2000 part of a settlement 2000 agreement. [Wired]
• Europe to ban spam? - An influential body of data protection experts could be about news and media to recommend that Europe bans spam. [The Register]
• MSN Criticized For Open Spam Relays - Responding to complaints that the Microsoft Network is spam allowing spammers to relay junk e-mail through MSN spam servers, the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) has spam added several MSN systems to its notorious anti-spam spam blacklist. The action could potentially dis
• Registrar Sues for Whois Spam - A domain name registrar has filed suit against a firm news and media it claims illegally used its customer contact information in an news and media aggressive marketing campaign of unsolicited email and phone calls. [Wired]
• AT&T admits spam offense after contract exposed - AT&T acknowledged Thursday that it had violated its 2000 own spam policy by providing Web-hosting services to 2000 a purported sender of unsolicited commercial email. [CNET.com]
• E-Mail Delays Plague Verizon Users - Company Blames Network Troubles on a Flood of 2000 \'Spam\' [Washington 2000 Post]
• Other Ways to Fry Spam - The Chickenboners and the Lumber Cartel are waging news and media a war over your email box. [Wired]
• In Defense of Spam - No one will admit to liking spam -- the canned pseudo-meat or the unsolicited e-mail that bears its name. But despite the current efforts of governments in North America and Europe to get it back into the can, spam is destined to be, and should be, a fact
• Harris sues ISPs over spam blockade - Polling giant claims ISPs have been duped into blocking millions 2000 of its e-mails in an anti-spam scam cooked up by 2000 a rival. [ZDNet]
• Brightmail Debuts Wireless Anti-Spam 'Mailwall' - Seeking to protect wireless e-mail users from spam 2000 and viruses, spam Brightmail, Inc. announced the release of 2000 new software that acts spam as a "mailwall." [Mobile 2000 Tech Today]
• Junk e-mail eradicated? - Online marketing - sometimes called spamming - is spam trying to spam clean up its act - so spam don\'t mention the S spam word. [BBC News]
• U.S. House Approves Anti-Spam Bill - The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously 2000 Tuesday that spam should be unlawful. [E-Commerce Times]
• Industry group cooks up rules for spam - Complaints about unsolicited commercial email have prompted an 2000 industry coalition 2000 to come up with standards designed 2000 to quell consumer concerns 2000 and keep regulators at 2000 bay. [CNET.com]
• Harris Interactive Files Suit Against AOL, Microsoft, Qwest and Other ISPs Over Restraint of Trade - Mainly an attack on MAPS, claiming that Harris are not 2000 spammers and should not be blocked.
• A Fight to Ban Cellphone Spam - Hundreds of unsuspecting AT&T wireless subscribers in April protested when spam trickled from their PCs to cellular phones. [Wired]
• Setting Limits for 'Whois' Data - A dispute between a domain name registrar and a Web news and media hosting company could set legal limits on accessing and using news and media personal information on Internet whois databases. [Wired]
• New MSN feature encourages spamming friends - The latest test version of Microsoft\\'s MSN Explorer spam is setting news and media off sparks over a feature that spam converts MSN email accounts news and media to Hotmail, as well spam as over an accompanying spam-like missive news and media that encourages spam customers to send an advertisement-laden email to frien
• Report: E-Mail Taking Hold as E-Commerce Tool - A survey released this week by Forrester Research, 2000 Inc. reports 2000 that e-tailers are now using electronic 2000 mail as a major 2000 means of generating repeat 2000 business from customers. [E-Commerce Times]
• Spam? Not us, says 24/7 - A US District Court in Denver has issued news and media 2000 a temporary restraining order on behalf of online news and media 2000 marketing gurus, 24/7, against the Mail Abuse Prevention news and media 2000 System (MAPS). [The Register]
• Mega-ISPs And Spam Support - Discussion about pink contracts. [Slashdot]
• Viral marketing goes one step too far - Article about the "viral marketing" technique used by spam AllAdvantage.com. [InfoWorld]
• The Congressman Who Loves Spam - H.R. 3113, which would fine spammers $500 for each piece 2000 of unsolicited junk email they send, would have passed unanimously 2000 were it not for the representative known throughout the House 2000 as "Dr. No." [Wired]
• House approves anti-spam legislation - The House of Representatives today passed the first bill that will hold email marketers accountable for the influx of bulk unsolicited email, commonly known as "spam." [CNET.com]
• Insider slams Kiwi spam fighters - ORBS\\' proactive approach to fighting bulk e-mail may 2000 actually help spam spammers. But the group\\'s chief critic 2000 is under the gun, spam too. [ZDNet]
• Study finds filters catch only a fraction of spam - Spam filters used by some popular Internet email spam providers weed out only a fraction of the spam junk they\\'re supposed to but almost never bounce spam legitimate messages, according to a new study. [CNET.com]
• Spammers Forced to Tell the Truth - A Colorado legislative committee has passed a bill spam that would require spammers to tag unsolicited email spam with a special subject line. [Wired]
• Verio's Alleged Spam is Temporarily Canned - In a case where a U.S. District Court spam is upholding a registrar\\'s right to protect people spam listed in its database, register.com Inc. won a spam preliminary injunction against Verio Inc. preventing the Web spam hosting company from mercilessly spamming its customers.
• E-mail Marketers Target Spam - A group of 15 companies has announced that 2000 they will spam form a coalition to design e-mail 2000 standards to limit spam. spam Among the companies involved 2000 in the Responsible Electronic Communication. [PC spam World]
• Online Marketers Propose Spam Controls - In a bid to ward off U.S. government news and media 2000 regulation, a coalition of online marketing heavyweights announced news and media 2000 plans Monday to propose standards meant to ease news and media 2000 consumer concerns about spam and online privacy. [E-Commerce news and media 2000 Times]
• Consumer watchdogs fail the Spam Test - Report on European consumer watchdog groups with no spam spam policies. spam [The Register]
• Anti-Spam Bill Clears Key Hurdle - An anti-spam bill that could have a wide-reaching news and media 2000 effect on online marketing is one step closer news and media 2000 to becoming law following the U.S. House Commerce news and media 2000 Committee's vote Wednesday. [E-Commerce Times]
• Spam Wars Escalate in Round Two - Attorney Pete Wellborn obtains Global Restraining Order against spammer Benchmark news and media Print Supply, and seeks contempt sanctions. If successful this news and media case will close down one of the most prolific US news and media spammers. [PR Newswire]
• Microsoft to rewrite marketing labeled as spam - Microsoft today said it plans to revise a notification message accompanying a test version of its new MSN Explorer software, bowing to criticism that the feature resembles self-promoting spam. [CNET.com]
• MSN blacklisted for harbouring spammers - Microsoft\\'s vastly interconnected ISP and portal, MSN, has 2000 become easy news and media prey for spammers due to several 2000 poorly-protected mail (SMTP) servers news and media to which outsiders can 2000 connect easily for a free, anonymous news and media ride, according 2000 to a bulletin on the Mail Abuse Preven
• Despite Foes, Spam Thrives - Even though there are now some state laws closely regulating spamming, the practice of sending mass unsolicited e-mails has acquired a sheen of respectability, and in some quarters is enthusiastically referred to as "sending an e-mail blitz." [E
• Hotmailers Getting Fat on Spam - Ask Hotmail users about their email accounts and news and media news and media most likely they will gripe how impossible it news and media news and media is to eliminate spam. [Wired]
• Spam Strikes Back - Do marketers have the right to flood the spam e-mail boxes 2000 of unsuspecting Internet users with unwanted spam e-mail, otherwise known as 2000 spam? One Washington state spam judge has effectively said yes -- 2000 and has spam sparked an instant debate about the constitutionality of 2000 spam law
• Verizon Online Users' E-Mail Problems Persist - More than a week after its network buckled spam under a news and media torrent of junk e-mail, and two spam days after the company news and media vowed to fully restore spam service, customers of Verizon Communications Inc. news and media yesterday continued spam to suffer severe problems exchanging messages over the news and media spam I
• 24/7 Media Snags Restraining Order Against MAPS - Ad server and technology company 24/7 Media succeeded in getting 2000 a temporary restraining order against anti-spam non-profit Mail Abuse Prevention 2000 System, on behalf of 24/7\'s e-mail marketing subsidiary, 24/7 Exactis. 2000 [InternetNews]
• When You Send Spam to Yourself - Carl Toups usually doesn\\'t blink at unsolicited junk mail in his Hotmail account, but a piece of spam recently caught his eye. [Wired]
• Mail Abuse Prevention Organization Stands Up to Giant Harris Interactive - MAPS, the anti-spam organization, will vigorously defend the spam law suit 2000 filed by Harris Interactive Inc. [PR spam Newswire]
• MSN turns users into spammers - A change of address notification for new users spam generates MSN Explorer endorsements to colleagues and friends. spam Make that former friends. [ZDNet]
• Verizon digs out from spam blizzard - Major American ISP and Gargantuan telecomms generalist Verizon spam was deluged spam with so much spam last week spam that its servers were spam unable to function at spam times, and left customers with something spam like a spam 24-hour e-mail delivery delay. [The Register]
• More accountability for spammers? - New e-mail marketing standards promise to balance privacy and personalization. Can the industry police itself? Will it? [ZDNet]
• Major ISPs Boot Spammers - As a result of intense pressure from anti-spam activists, major ISPs are taking steps to ensure their salespeople do not sign contracts with companies that send unsolicited commercial e-mail. [E-Commerce Times]

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