Don&#39;t get mad with spammers. Get even
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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The vendor adds to its growing list of spam lawsuits one aimed at a service provider that hosts spammers. By Thomas Claburn. Cheapbulletproof.
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SPAM FIGHTING super hero software behemoth Microsoft has come up with a wizard way of stopping those who send spam from its free Hotmail accounts.
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Regarding the article '"Bad guys' are ahead despite fight against spam" (Dec. 6): Spam is the normal consequence of free e-mail as provided by nearly all Internet access providers. Sending a million pieces of junk e-mail is almost free for the spammer.
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Try not to smile: A top spammer may be sentenced to hard time.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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If you didn&#39;t think anybody else could possibly get any more spam than you, then think of Bill Gates. The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives 4 million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it junk, said Steve Ballmer, the company&#39;s chief executive.
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Are be bovvered? No, we're not The volume of spam arriving in Americans' personal and workplace inboxes is rising, but email users are less bothered by it than they once were.â¦
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A technological weapon against unwanted &#39;&#39;spam&quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn&#39;t work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study.
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It&#39;s called &quot;spim,&quot; and it&#39;s the instant-messaging equivalent of spam--a shotgun blast of unwanted advertisements via instant-messaging tools or chat rooms.
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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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If you've been around the net for a while you've been subscribed to a few thousand mailing lists.  I'm on a few big mailing lists now that host more than a few thousand users.  Sooner or later some guy on the list will go on vacation and instead of just letting email sit in their inbox he's nice enough to respond to all his email - with a form letter!  Usually in the shape of:  "I'm on vacation.  I'll be back in January."  Of course they're stupid enough to apply this to *every* folder in their inbox and so everytime someone posts or replies to the list this message is sent out to one of every three thousand posters.  We don't care if you're on vacation.  We don't care when you get back and  ...
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What kind of E-mail is landing in Martin Taylorâs in-box right about now? Itâs probably not unlike some of the messages Iâve been getting in response to a story I wrote about Steve Ballmerâs Oct. 27
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The anti-spam action pioneered by Lycos and its &#39;make love not spam&#39; campaign has been all-too successful and could make the company vulnerable to legal attack.
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We're being inundated by spam.  How could community-based approaches help?
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Lycos Europe this week introduced a controversial weapon in the fight against spam: a screensaver that attacks spam Web sites. Lycos&#39; &quot;Make Love, Not Spam&quot; screensaver software is designed to use a PC&#39;s spare
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]