But as more vigilant antispam measures are employed, legitimate messages are increasingly caught in the net, causing frustration at both ends. MSN has nearly 120 million email customers, including those using the vastly popular Hotmail service, but...
Conservative estimates suggest that spam makes up around 30 to 40 per cent of all email traffic. Stephen Timms may well know spam is a "curse on the internet", but it appears to be a curse he's no closer to exorcising.
The tricks that spammers use to weasel their emails into inboxes and get unsuspecting users to open them are also being restricted under the so-called Can Spam bill. If the legislative process runs smoothly, the bill could become law by the end of...
The US Department of Justice has filed a criminal complaint against four Detroit-area men under the federal Can-Spam Act, in the first case sparked by the legislation. Sadek and Christopher Chung violated the terms of the Can-Spam Act by creating...
The investigator said that while the more sophisticated user knows software promoted via spam is unlikely to be a genuine product, the sites the spammers direct users towards via the junk mails can be convincing, with traditional 'shopping basket...
However, somebody the Round-Up has a great deal of time for is Steve Linford, the founder of antispam group Spamhaus. Spamhaus said on its website: "As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organisation to stop...