Robert Shaw: SPAM

Internet is losing ground in battle against SPAM

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:52:32 GMT

Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam [New York Times: Technology]

Australian Government versus SPAM

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:13:18 GMT

The Australian National Office for the Information Economy has released a report containing a series of recommendation for addressing the growing problem of SPAM (press release here). Nice to see there is also recognition of the need for multilateral cooperation: "Australia should work with the OECD, APEC and other relevant multilateral bodies."

War on SPAM

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:33:45 GMT

Post on VentureBlog about the war on SPAM. "On the Spam blocking side, there is an undeniable need for services like Postini, MailFrontier, BrightMail and many other companies."

AOL's ramped-up antispam program stops 1 billion spams daily

Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:03:11 GMT

A Computerworld article says "Two weeks after beefing up its antispam efforts on behalf of its members, America Online Inc. said today that it has blocked as many as 1 billion spam e-mails in a single day, up from the average 780 million spam messages a day it was blocking in mid-February."

Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces

Mon, 03 Mar 2003 10:24:45 GMT

Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces. The Internet Research Task Force forms a new offshoot whose sole goal is to document the magnitude of the junk e-mail problem -- and do what it takes to fix it. By Justin Jaffe. [Wired News]

US FTC to Hold Three Day Public Spam Workshop

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:58:21 GMT

The [US] Federal Trade Commission will host a three-day "Spam Forum" Wednesday, April 30 through Friday, May 2, [2003] to address the proliferation of unsolicited commercial e-mail and to explore the technical, legal, and financial issues associated with it.

Korea Tightens SPAM Regulations

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:19:38 GMT

The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication announced on January 20, 2003, that it will adopt a set of measure to tighten regulations on those who send unsolicted emails or SPAM.

Follow-up on SPAM Conference

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:44:53 GMT

Follow-up to my earlier note on the recent "Conference on SPAM Filtering: January 17, 2003": webcasts of the sessions, proceedings and a spamconference ideas mailing list are available.

SPAM: 40% of email

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:25:57 GMT

[Wired]: Bye Telemarketing, Hi More Spam? "According to Enrique Salem, CEO of Brightmail, which filters 10 percent of Internet e-mail, eight percent of the mail the company filtered in September 2001 was spam. In November 2002, it was 40 percent."

Conference on SPAM Filtering: January 17, 2003

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:23:21 GMT

SPAM Conference: Cambridge, MA on January 17, 2003 at the first conference on spam filtering. List of speakers.

"The scale and effect of the spam epidemic leads us to suggest that spam is no longer simply a nuisance, but is a type of information security problem."

GIP also held a workshop on SPAM in summer 2002 and the presentations can be found here.

Now That Ringing Cellphone May Be a Telemarketer's Call

Fri, 05 Jul 2002 07:26:11 GMT

Now That Ringing Cellphone May Be a Telemarketer's Call. Cellphones have long been safe from the marketing that bombards kitchen phones and e-mail in-boxes. But that electronic cocoon is starting to fray. [New York Times: Technology]

Korea Fights SPAM

Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:29:24 GMT

Korea has the highest Internet broadband penetration per capita in the world and by a very large margin (the runner-ups are not even close). It's always interesting to look at how technology leaders address policy issues as it indicates where other countries might be heading. For example, as I explained in my earlier mention of "Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Terrorism in Korea", the government is attacking a wide range of hacking and cyber-crime issues. In its latest initiative, this article in the Korea Herald explains how the the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication has now unveiled plans for tough new laws dealing with SPAM.

Fighting SPAM

Fri, 31 May 2002 09:03:10 GMT

An article on Slashdot says that the European Union is moving toward legislation requiring specific opt-in to receive commercial email (errr... SPAM). Hooray. There's an increasing amount of legislative activity around the world to deal with SPAM such as the US Can SPAM act which prohibits sending unsolicited commercial e-mail "accompanied by header information that is materially or intentionally false or misleading". Let's hope the legislators eventually get it right and stamp this stuff out just like they did fairly effectively with unsolicited faxes.