Articles Related to spam e-mails

Clothing company Gap has agreed to a CA$200,000 settlement with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for allegedly violating the Canadian Anti-Spam Law...

Looters are going outside the streets of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina's hardest-hit US city, and setting up shop on the Internet where potential prey abounds. E-looters are using known methods such as phishing and spam e-mail, but hiding them under Katrina's cloak to rip off unsuspecting victims.

In dealing with spam, that flood of unwanted and unsolicited e-mail that can sometimes clog in-boxes, there are only three basic ways of tackling the problem, even though one is unrealistic. The unrealistic one is not having e-mail at all; no e-mail address, no spam. Since that is not an option, the two other options are to tackle the problem in-house or to find an outsourced anti-spam solution. Both are excellent means of controlling spam but the decision to go with one or the other will be based on considerations that have little to do with the spam e-mails themselves.

2002 was certainly an interesting year in IT.