Can-Spam didn&#39;t, survey says
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Nearly a year after its passage, the federal Can-Spam law has done little to curb spam, according to a year-end report due Monday.
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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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Spam that includes sexually oriented content viewable in the e-mail message violates the &quot;brown paper wrapper&quot; rules that are part of the CAN-SPAM law, as well as Federal Trade Commission rules.
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You&#39;ve got less spam, according to America Online, the world&#39;s largest online service. The online unit of Time Warner Inc.
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Critics claim the CAN-SPAM law doesn't work and say the amount of spam in U.S. people's in-boxes increased since the measure became official one year ago.
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Spam that contains sexually oriented material viewable in e-mail messages violates the &quot;brown paper wrapper&quot; provision in the Can-Spam law.
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If you thought nobody could get more spam than you, think of Bill Gates. The chairman of Microsoft (MSFT) gets 4 million pieces of e-mail a day, most of it junk, says Steve Ballmer, Microsoft&#39;s chief executive.
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The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail earned a mixed report card after a year on the books as few spammers faced legal action and recent surveys showed that spam makes up an even larger proportion of online messages. -washingtonpost.com
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In spite of calls by various government officials and Internet users, proposed legislation in New Zealand suggests that spam remain a civil, not a criminal, offense. A Parliament committee suggests that an enforcement agency be founded to handle victim complaints, relieving ISPs of the burden.
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Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) SenderID technology may not be hitting it off with other technology companies, but the company&#39;s continuing on the anti-spam crusade that it started talking up back in January.
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It&#39;s an ill wind, as they say. If you believe the word on the anti-spam lists, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have all disrupted one of Florida&#39;s major internet businesses: spamming.
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The world&#39;s largest online service reported junk e-mail declined by more than 75% this year. NEW YORK  - You&#39;ve got less spam, according to America Online, the world&#39;s largest online service.
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Over 42 percent of all spam mails sent this year around the world came from the US. In a list named the &quot;dirty dozen,&quot; the US topped 12 countries from which most spam messages originate.
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Spam makes sense. Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
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A technological weapon against unwanted ''spam&quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn't work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study.
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BOSTON - Spurred by back-to-school sales and political pitches, spam e-mail accounted for 82 percent of all the inbound e-mail processed during August, and made up 90 percent of all mail sent during one spam-filled day last month, according to an e-mail security firm.
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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.