Going to Extremes to Fight Spam
By Leander Kahney
"SAN FRANCISCO — Felix Lin and Linus Upson want to make it harder to send and receive e-mail. They believe it's the best way to deal with the problem of spam."
Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces
By Justin Jaffe
"Like Greek gods high atop Mount Olympus, the masters of the Internet have long been watching the spam wars. But this week they decided to step in and settle the fight — once and for all. "
It’s a good thing Pennsylvania has the Do Not Call list. This kind of !@#$ drives me nuts. Why would I want to buy something that’s being sold by someone I didn’t want to talk to in the first place?!?
New Telemarketing Tool Trumps TeleZapper
By JIM KRANE
“A telemarketing tool that penetrates home privacy defenses is upping the ante in a technology battle between sales callers and consumers seeking shelter from unsolicited calls. Castel Inc., a maker of automated dialing technology, boasts that its DirectQuest software is immune to the TeleZapper, a $40 gadget designed to thwart sales calls by faking the tones of a disconnected number.”
I really hope this works.
In Search of the Perfect Spam Filter
Techies immerse themselves in spam to craft a filter that renders mass e-mail marketing ineffective (and undesirable).
By Scarlet Pruitt
"BOSTON–The roughly 500 programmers, researchers, hackers, and IT administrators who gathered in a chilly classroom on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday aren’t just looking to slow the relentless onslaught of spam–they want to completely destroy its business model."
Poor Hormel.
"You’ve probably seen, heard or even used the term ‘spamming’ to refer to the act of sending unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or ‘SPAM’ to refer to the UCE itself. Following is our position on the relationship between UCE and our trademark SPAM."
It’s bad enough we’re called naive. This won’t help our image.
Email Hoax Targets Peace Activists
‘UN Petition for Peace’ email is just a giant hoax with no purpose but to flood UN inboxes.
“Recently many people have been sending the petition, often titled ‘UN Petition for Peace’, featured at the bottom of this message around. It should be brought to attention that it is in fact a hoax, as mentioned on the following website and many others that document e-mail chainletters and internet hoaxes.”