ISPs again go after spammers
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For the second time this year, an alliance of major Internet providers - including Atlanta-based EarthLink â-iled a coordinated group of lawsuits aimed at stemming the flood of online junk mail.
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AOL has filed two lawsuits, while EarthLink and Yahoo! each filed a single lawsuit. The three Microsoft lawsuits allege that defendants spoofed the domains of all four ISPs and used open proxies to route the emails.
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The nation&#39;s largest e-mail providers today filed a new round of lawsuits against Internet spammers allegedly responsible for shoveling millions of junk e-mail messages into computer users&#39; in-boxes and their instant messaging screens.
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Net providers in the UK are resisting calls for them to police what customers do online.
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The Justice Department begins a nationwide crackdown against spammers. Also: The EU extends its review of Microsoft's deal with Time Warner & hellip;. Sprint finds a third cable partner to offer VoIP & hellip;. and more.
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The world's largest Internet service provider believes spammers are starting to give up &#151; at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers.
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Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.
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Some spammers are getting their messages through using techniques designed to spot and stop them. A survey shows that spammers are the biggest users of a technique designed to find out if e-mail comes from the net address it says it does.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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Four more ISPs will start charging banks, e-commerce sites and other large e-mail senders for guaranteed delivery. Individuals, businesses and organizations can still send messages for free, but spam filters might gobble them up.
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Lycos has apparently been the target of spam attacks following the release of their anti-spam deny of service campaign. The BlogBloke reports on this new happening in the anti-spam wars âItâs payback time!
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Spammers aren't ducking antispam laws by operating offshore, they're just ignoring it.
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Internet service providers have to walk a fine line between fairness and profitability. Users want maximum service, and are entitled to honest contracts. Maybe there's a way to help everyone at once.
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It wasn&#39;t long ago that competitive entities seemed to be joining together to combat Internet users&#39; common foe, spam. However, despite the fact that big Internet players
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Storm Trojan fingered in tempest Prominent anti-spam services came under a sustained denial of service attack late last week. The assault targeted Spamhaus, Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (SURBL), and Realtime URI Blacklist (URIBL).â¦
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Continuing the war against spam, Microsoft has been suing some more spammers. The company have filed seven lawsuits against individuals for failing to label sexually
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Spammers hijack the email service of the ISP Tiscali, knocking out the service for many customers.