EDITORIAL: Lying Spammers Banned From Virginia: An Appeals Court Has Upheld Virginia's Tough Anti-Spam Law, but the Fight Still Lacks National Leadership.
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By The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 8--The Virginia Court of appeals this week upheld protections for people tired of spam in their e-mail inboxes. A state crackdown, however, will not much dent the spam machine. Effective federal legislation and enforcement is required.
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THE AUSTRALIAM Prime Minister, a man called John Howard, is at the centre of a spam row. When Howardâs party steered through an anti-spam law late last year it came with a couple of loopholes that were opposed by the opposition.
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Judge halts guilty plea by ex-AOL employee who sold e-mail addresses, questions new anti-spam law. NEW YORK  - A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee
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Two spammers have been convicted of three charges of sending thousands of junk e-mails through servers located in Virginia. Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison and Jessica DeGroot was fined $7,500 (Â£4,075).
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Can seek compensation, too Microsoft has stopped a man from selling lists of email addresses which were being used for spam. A court has granted a summary judgment against Paul Martin McDonald, stopping him from selling the lists.â¦
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Opinion: Already we&#39;re hearing it, that spammers are beating SPF and the other authentication systems. But the truth has always been that authentication is only a tool for anti-spam systems to use.
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AOL helped build a case that led to the conviction of one of the world&#39;s most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes. A state jury in Virginia has recommended a nine-year prison term in the nation&#39;s first felony trial of spam purveyors.
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Jail looms A notorious American spammer is heading for jail after a Virginia Appeals Court upheld his conviction and sentence to nine years' imprisonment for junk mail offences.â¦
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 25--Local governments violate Virginia's Freedom of Information Act with impunity, ordinarily protected from penalty by compliant local judges and by the unwillingness of people to sue city leaders to force them to follow the law.
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A Montgomery County judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate business transactions beyond the state's borders.
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One of the top 10 spammers in the US has been sentenced to nine years in prison for illegal spam activities under Virginia&#39;s anti-spam law.
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Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers.
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A Utah professor finds himself the target of an unexpected flood of hate mail after posting a report defending the disputed Bush National Guard memos. The incident is one of many examples of the power of bloggers acting in unison. By Staci D. Kramer.
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A US appeals court ruled this week that a lower tribunal had no right to decide a case brought against US internet giant Yahoo by two French groups trying to halt online sales of Nazi memorabilia. Documents showed on Wednesday that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...
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A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue said one of his concerns was that online crimes such as those charged against Robert Soloway &#151; dubbed the "Spam King" by federal investigators &#151; can be committed anywhere at anytime.
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A Loudoun County jury convicted two North Carolina residents of violating Virginia&#39;s anti-spam law yesterday, a decision that likely will become a landmark in the nation&#39;s growing crusade against unwanted e-mail.
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p2pnet.net News:- Spammer Jeremy Jaynes, aka Gaven Stubberfield, had the distinction of being the first spammer to be charged under Virginia&#39;s antispam law.