Spam wins the second round
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THE battle against spam took a turn for the worse yesterday when America Online pulled back support for an industry-wide email authentication system aimed at reducing junk email.
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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 United States is in a league of its own when it comes to sending junk mail to e-mail users. Researchers at security software company Sophos found that 42 percent of all spam sent this year came from the
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 8--The gauntlet is down: two cans of Spam and any ingredients necessary to make the canned meat into an appealing dish.
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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 released its second annual top 10 spam terms yesterday, listing the subject lines of the most popular junk e-mails. The Dulles-based company said the number of spams sent to users  was down from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 1.2 billion this year. -The Washington Post
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AOL believes spammers are starting to give up - at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers. The total number of spam complaints from AOL members fell more than 75% last month.
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So you think you get a lot of spam, maybe a few hundred per day? Well think about the amount that bill gates gets at Microsoft, over 4 million a day apparently!
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The Blue Frog system crippled spam-advertised websites by deluging them with opt-out requests, until a retaliatory cyberattack killed it.  Now activists are redeploying the technology to send political messages that can't be ignored. By Ryan Singel.
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Application that claimed to "spam the spammers" caused much controversy.
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NEW YORK America Online says spammers may be giving up on sending junk e-mail to its subscribers. A spokesman for Dulles-based AOL says the number of spam messages they delete is down from last year.
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For spammers, it&#39;s been a summer of love. Two newly issued reports tracking the circulation of unsolicited e-mails say pornographic spam dominated this summer, nearly all of it originating from Internet addresses in North America.
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American spammers resurgent The US was top of the spam charts for the month of June, according to new e-mail security statistics from IE Internet.â¦
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By Dan Heckel, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 26--The e-mails I get on my office computer break down like this: 50 percent are ones I need to read and 49.99999 percent of them are spam I don't need.
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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.
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A trip to Spamtown USA to check out a museum celebrating the canned pork product reminds us how Spam made an impact on world cuisine long before its name became synonymous with unwanted e-mail. Michelle Delio reports from Austin, Minnesota.
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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.