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Issue 498, 5 May 2004, Law not the answer to internet junk mail Junk email and other ‘deviant’ behaviour such as hacking and virus propagation on the internet cannot be stopped using the law, according to Leeds researcher David Wall, who is studying the policing of internet activity. “The internet world is the fastest moving area of life yet seen and attempting to control it solely by law is impossible – we will forever be chasing a shadow,” he said. Professor Wall said order on the internet can only be achieved by replicating the ways society achieves it – with organisations and individuals playing their part technologically, socially and culturally to marginalise unacceptable behaviour. reporter.leeds.ac.uk /498/s7.htm   (255 words)

Spam vs. Junk Mail Junk mail is worse in that it wastes trees, and requires recycling effort. The thing is, I have gotten junk mail that actually interested me and wasn't a scam and I have never been offended by a piece of junkmail, whereas the same cannot be said of spam. Junk mail is worse (waste of paper and postal resources), but spam bothers me more (I feel more invaded by it). surveycentral.org /survey/771.html   (1371 words)

Topics - Internet Marketing Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera are examples of browsers. In contrast, "spam" is mail that is sent to anyone, whether they request it or not; and "Opt-out" is the practice of forcing someone to do something in order to 'not' receive e-mail. Spam - Spam is "Internet junk mail"; e-mail that is sent 'blindly' to thousands or tens of thousands of e-mail addresses usually in the hope of bringing in customers. www.internetmarketingconference.com /stockholm2005/topics.html   (1675 words)

Junk E-Mail: From Trickle to Torrent Junk e-mail, called spam, has been a problem ever since the public began to join scientists and academics on the Internet several years ago. While some Internet providers are trying to sue junk e-mailers for electronic trespassing, the legal system is scrambling to catch up to a problem rapidly becoming as obnoxious to many people as dinner-time telemarketing. But many Internet users, who feel violated when they find any kind of advertisement injected into their computers, are leery of such promises. partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/052697junk.html   (1576 words)

Spam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) These e-mails, often referred to as "spam," are an irritating fact of life for people who use the Internet to communicate with friends, do research, or purchase goods and services on line. Junk email is an issue not only reserved for individuals - it is estimated that spam costs legitimate businesses $9 billion dollars a year. One example of illegal spam, sometimes referred to as "Joe job" spam, purports to come from reputable business firms and is intended to harass those firms or to elicit personal information from recipients. www.atg.wa.gov /junkemail   (593 words)

History of the Internet and Junk Mail Spam is junk mail sent to email users who did not in any way request for these messages. The source junk mail is usually unavailable on the particular message and they fail to address the recipient of the mail(Infinitymailer.com). Although sending spam mail is not illegal under federal law, several email servers have developed filters to protect their users from receiving spam mail. www.valdosta.edu /~mchacha/paper.htm   (635 words)

Penn Engineering - CETS Answers People sending electronic "junk mail" generally use a fake "From" address to avoid receiving millions of responses complaining about their abuse of the Internet and to make it more difficult for people to complain to their Internet Service Provider. Installed on Eniac is a system that can filter out junk mail based on a set of "junk mail criteria" and a list of known spam-sources provided by the user. With junk mailers attempting to avoid the responses that their advertisements provoke, and many other people trying to avoid getting on spam mailing lists, fictitious return addresses have become common in electronic mail. www.seas.upenn.edu /cets/answers/junkmail.html   (479 words)

Mail Commander. Email client software Mail Commander makes it possible to arrange automatic replies based on preset templates depending on letter content and provides for automatic processing of requests for news subscriptions and requests to be deleted from the mailing list. Mail Commander allows automatic sorting of incoming messages based on preset criteria and their placement in individual folders or mailboxes where they can be viewed at a later time. Mail Commander is designed to personalize messages in such a way that you will be able to use any field of the address book to prepare and send messages according to the distribution list. www.internet-soft.com /mailcom   (8096 words)

Junk E-Mail Junk E-mail seems to be a growing problem on the Internet. The only way to avoid junk mail is to hope that the anti-junk mail legislation (The Smith Amendment) will be made into law (for a rundown on the various laws pending, see "The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail" web site ). Some of them are resources for identifying and screwing with junk mailers, and others claim that by registering with them, you will be removed from junk mail lists (and if you buy that one, I've got some reports to sell you. members.aol.com /SATP2/articles/junkmail.html   (1927 words)

Stop Junk Mail, Telemarketing and Spam (5) "Internet domain name" refers to a globally unique, hierarchical reference to an Internet host or service, assigned through a centralized Internet naming authority and composed of a series of character strings separated by periods with the right-most string specifying the top of the hierarchy. The term does not include electronic mail sent by an organization using electronic mail for the purpose of communicating exclusively with members, employees, or contractors of the organization. (d) An electronic mail service provider that provides for a dispute resolution process as described by Section 46.010 may not be held liable for blocking the receipt or transmission through its service of any commercial electronic mail message that the provider reasonably believes is or will be sent in violation of this chapter. www.junkmailstopper.com /texas_spam_law.asp   (1440 words)

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email | Junk e-mail is "postage due" marketing; it's like a telemarketer calling you collect. The economics of junk e-mail encourages massive abuse and because junk e-mailers can get into the business very cheaply, the volume of junk e-mail is increasing every day. The identical mail from a mailing list could be legitimate to a recipient who'd asked for it but spam to a recipient who hadn't. www.cauce.org   (1095 words)

Internet Law - Spam/Junk Email   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) To promote its internet business and website, plaintiff sent internet users unsolicited bulk e-mail, commonly known as "spam." The recipients of this spam registered complaints with defendant, which hosted plaintiff's website. This mailing, to thousands of invalid e-mail addresses, resulted in a flood of "returned" e-mails, which crashed plaintiff ISP's mail system and disrupted plaintiffs' business. In a brief order, Washington Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson declared Washington State's Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act, RCW 19.190.020 and RCW 19.190.030, unconstitutional on the grounds that it violates the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution because it is "unduly restrictive and burdensome" of interstate commerce. www.phillipsnizer.com /library/topics/spamming.cfm   (1614 words)

E-mail spam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The SMTP system, used to send e-mail across the Internet, forwards mail from one server to another; mail servers that ISPs run commonly require some form of authentication that the user is a customer of that ISP. Internet users and system administrators have deployed a vast array of techniques to block, filter, or otherwise banish spam from users' mailboxes. In the original SMTP mail architecture, this was the default behavior: a user could send mail to practically any mail server, which would pass it along towards the intended recipient's mail server. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/E-mail_spam   (5285 words)

House votes to block unsolicited internet junk mail - www.smh.com.au House votes to block unsolicited internet junk mail - www.smh.com.au House votes to block unsolicited internet junk mail The US House of Representatives yesterday overwhelmingly voted to curb the spread of unsolicited internet junk mail, launching the first attempt to regulate content on the world wide web since its launch in the 1990s. www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/23/1069522476999.html?from=storyrhs   (375 words)

Your Internet Connection According to http://whatis.com, the famous Monty Python Viking sketch, where the word "spam" was mentioned a "few times" too many, was current and popular when Internet junk-mail was born. Based on the quite conservative estimates at: http://www.brightlight.com, if 100 spammers generate 250,000 daily spam messages, assuming all we do is delete the messages, which requires approximately five seconds per message, the annual cost of this junk e-mail is $213,000,000. Internet junk-mail is very different from the irritating (but not illegal) unsolicited junk telemarketing phone calls or even junk "snail" mail. www.comsoc.org /ci/public/1998/nov/ciint.html   (771 words)

Junk Mail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The amount of junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering—some four million tons, nearly half of which is never opened. Reducing the amount of junk mail you receive will lessen the impact that junk mail production has on the environment. This way, if unwanted mail arrives at your door you will be able to track who is giving out your name and can request that they stop. www.concordnet.org /dpw/recycle/html/junkmail.html   (423 words)

Experts brainstorm in Norway on how to combat e-mail spam - Aug. 24, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) IKT Norge said it hoped Internet service providers would be required to offer their clients various solutions to filter out junk mail. Hildrum said meanwhile that "one of the main themes that emerged was that it is in large part up to recipients to manage their inbox" by using safe lists, blockers or filters. International studies cited by the Norwegian transport and communications ministry show that junk mail now accounts for 48 percent of all e-mails, up from seven percent two years ago, and the 50 percent mark will soon be surpassed. www.inq7.net /inf/2003/aug/24/inf_5-1.htm   (455 words)

All About Spam, Spit & Spim However, other types of spam are found in a variety of Internet communication mediums such as instant messaging, discussion boards, mobile phones with text messaging, newsgroups, Internet telephony, blogs — basically any device or client that provides a means for communications. While many Internet users have resigned themselves to the fact that e-mail spam is here to stay, there is nothing more annoying than logging in to check your e-mail and downloading or sifting through tens or hundreds (or even thousands) of unwanted e-mail advertising for some product sent directly to your e-mail address. Some spammers basically attack mail servers and use a method called a dictionary attack to get their junk mail sent out. www.webopedia.com /DidYouKnow/Internet/2006/spam_spit_spim.asp   (2386 words)

Junk E-mail Home Page Junk e-mail continues to be the scourge of the Internet, filling many mail boxes with mass distributions of unsolicited e-mail messages in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. While the receipt of junk e-mail is annoying to both the e-mail provider and the user, the broad range of interests and occupational diversity within a large organization make it extremely difficult to design an effective spam filter at the server side of e-mail delivery. You can't avoid them if your e-mail address is listed on the Internet because they do not follow the "rules for exclusion" that are normally followed by spider, robots and webcrawlers that limit their searching. notebook.ifas.ufl.edu /spam   (3974 words)

News Item: SEC Continues Internet Fraud Crackdown The filing of these cases follows the SEC's October 28, 1998 Internet Sweep, the first orchestrated nationwide operation by the SEC to combat Internet fraud. The alleged creators of the fraudulent Internet touts purportedly provided unbiased opinions in their recommendations, while at the same time receiving more than $450,000 in cash and approximately 2.7 million stock shares and options for their services. They also arranged for publications to tout IMP on the Internet and elsewhere, for which they paid the touters undisclosed compensation in the form of cheap or free stock. www.sec.gov /news/headlines/spamcase.htm   (1113 words)

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Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Software/Internet/Mail/Anti_Spam mail scanning program in conjuction with procmail to weed out junk e-mail. an anti-spam mail scanner with hooks for anti-virus capability, and is intended to be Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) independent. a mail filter written in python, it parses all incoming/outcoming mails and extracts some fields. www.linuxlinks.com /Software/Internet/Mail/Anti_Spam/index.php   (1881 words)

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BBC News | EUROPE | EU slams internet 'junk mail' Internet users world-wide are paying an extra $9.4 bn a year in connection costs to receive "junk" email, according to a study carried out for the European Commission. The Commission warned that unless internet consumers feel their privacy is adequately protected, the future of online services could be in doubt. It said information from web site transactions and visits was being sold for large sums of money, but many internet users were unaware of how data collected from them was being used. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1150317.stm   (275 words)

TCC Internet Junk Mail and Virus Filtering Junk Mail and Virus Filtering has been included with all TCC Internet accounts as a way for you to escape annoying spam e-mail and dangerous computer viruses. No, and since the Message Center is Web-based, you can login to check your filtered mail or change your settings from any Web site with "cookies" enabled and proper safety encryption (both are standard on most Web browsers). There is no guarantee on this service; it can only look at e-mail from a "computer" point of view to determine if it is junk or not. www2.tcc.coop /internet/jvfilter.asp   (536 words)

Cookies, Spam and Security Confuse Internet Users Among the study's key findings is that 69 percent of Internet users have unknowingly signed up for e-mail distribution lists and more than 40 percent of users don't know or understand what cookies are or how they work. While nearly 30 percent of online users feel that a site that shares their information with other sites is trying to better interact with them, the report says companies should not assume this translates into the freedom to run unlimited, untargeted marketing campaigns. The survey found 21 percent of Internet users are not sure what their browsers are set to when it comes to cookies, down from 50 percent in 1997. dc.internet.com /news/article.php/2111_345431   (691 words)

freedomforum.org: House passes measure to curb junk e-mail The legislation, which passed 427-1, also gives Internet service providers new legal weapons to combat spam messages that clog their networks. Not only are consumers deluged with often false or pornographic messages, Wilson said, but ISPs spend an estimated $1 billion a year to cope with the added traffic of millions of spam messages. The Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2000 (H.R. would require spammers to provide a valid return e-mail address so recipients could serve notice that they wanted to be taken off the mailing list. www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=3029   (400 words)

SPAM - Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail The Federal Communications Commission has tentatively determined (pdf) that Internet phone calls are subject to wiretapping by law enforcement under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report (pdf) entitled "Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet." The report found, among other things, that spam has had an increasingly negative effect on email usage, but that it effects personal email more than work email. The Internet Service Provider Earthlink won a $16.4 million civil judgment against the same spammer in federal court earlier in the month. www.epic.org /privacy/junk_mail/spam   (2089 words)

CNN.com - House legislation would put restraints on junk e-mail - July 18, 2000 The legislation, which passed 427-1, also gives Internet service providers, or ISPs, new legal weapons to combat junk e-mail, or "spam" messages, that clog their networks. In addition to deluging consumers with often false or pornographic messages, she said it costs ISPs an estimated $1 billion a year to cope with the added traffic of millions of spam messages. The bill requires those sending unsolicited commercial electronic (UCE) mail messages to provide a valid return electronic mail address so recipients can serve notice that they want to be taken off the mailing list. edition.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/18/junke.mail.ap   (561 words)

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