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Newsfactor: How To Shut Down Spam
Don't ever click on a remove link to remove your e-mail address from a list.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20005.html
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E-Commerce News: FTC Shuts Down 9-11 Spam Scam
The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday.
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_988971
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Internetnews: It's All Perfectly Illegal
The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/4_973481
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Computerworld: Spam Wars
In the past year, spam has moved beyond personal e-mail accounts, invading business systems and graduating from societal pest to corporate enemy.
http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,75737,00.html
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ABCNEWS.com: New Ways to Can Spam E-mail
New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97504
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USA Today: E-mail avalanche even buries CEOs Take some tips from harried chief executives who are drowning in it
In the three seconds it takes to read this sentence, more than a half-million e-mails will land in in-boxes. By 2005, nearly that many will land each second. The e-mail avalanche knows no rank.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2002/01/04/usatcov-email.htm
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Internetnews: FTC to Pursue Deceptive E-mail Advertisers
The Federal Trade Commission is planning to announce a series of actions against suspected spammers in coming weeks.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=967151
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Internetnews: FTC Plans Crackdown on 9-11 Spam
"Spam is one of the Internet's dirty little secrets, and it's bad enough when your mom gets targeted with porn stuff and get-rich quick schemes. But the people who prey on the public selling worthless products related to the events of Sept. 11 are a
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=987501
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The Register: AOL wins $7m in porn spam case
AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12/17/aol_wins_7m_in_porn/
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The Register: Anti-spam filters kill legitimate emails
Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/29/antispam_filters_kill_legitimate_emails/
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