WE HATE SPAM, CONGRESS SAYS. EXCEPT SPAM FROM US

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Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

I hate referrer spam

I hate referrer spam 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

These people/sites really piss me off because they've been spamming my referrers:

xsonnerie.com
riaa.com

And... I won't be voting for John Kerry

blog.johnkerry.com

Those three sites have been spamming my referrers for the past month or so...

They just got added to my referrer spam list in my referrer scripts... oh, I also don't montior blogspot.com sites anymore thanks to the recent rash of weird blogspot.com referrer spammings that made the circle lately...

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From
Congress

Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From
Congress 12/28/2003 06:31 AM

Congress Votes to Can Spam

Congress Votes to Can Spam 12/09/2003 06:13 AM
The House approves the first national anti-spam measure. The legislation encourages the Federal Trade Commission to create a do-not-spam list of e-mail addresses and includes penalties for spammers of up to five years in prison.

Congress Looking To Enable More Fax Spam

Congress Looking To Enable More Fax Spam 06/16/2004 01:21 PM
Just as Congress is congratulating themselves on stopping spam, they're now trying to make it easier to send spam faxes as well. The FCC has a new rule that will require written permission to receive a fax. Admittedly, there are problems with this rule, such as the inability to give verbal permission to receive a fax. If someone calls up over the phone and wants information faxed to them, that should be legal. However, the bill in Congress goes completely in the other direction and gives no time limit on how long a company has the right to fax someone. A perfectly reasonable compromise (suggested by opponents of the new bill) is to allow faxes for 48 hours after a verbal request, but not any longer. As it stands now, any company that believes you've given them verbal permission to fax them, can send you faxes forever. This can be a big problem especially when some less than honest fax marketing companies have been known to fake phone logs to pretend they had permission to fax people.

Congress says it hates spam (except its
own)

Congress says it hates spam (except its
own) 12/28/2003 03:09 PM
CNET Dec 28 2003 1:46PM ET

Congress OKs anti-spam bil

Congress OKs anti-spam bil 12/09/2003 03:47 PM

Trojan Horse behind German hate-mail
spam flood

Trojan Horse behind German hate-mail
spam flood 06/13/2004 10:13 AM

German hate mail spam attack stuns
experts

German hate mail spam attack stuns
experts 06/11/2004 04:57 AM
Virus spreads racist propaganda

Congress OKs anti-spam bill

Congress OKs anti-spam bill 12/09/2003 12:23 AM
CNN Dec 8 2003 11:22PM ET

Congress Revisiting Spam Plans

Congress Revisiting Spam Plans 05/25/2004 11:55 AM
When the CAN SPAM law was first passed, anyone who thought through what the law actually said realized that it wouldn't work, and some people started asking what was plan B? Instead of just patting themselves on the back, we wanted to know exactly how they would measure the success or failure of the bill, and what they would do in the very likely event that it made the problem worse, not better. The sponsors of the bill never really responded to that question, but just talked about how wonderful it was that they were now banning spam. Except, only five months into the law being in effect and the spam problem is clearly worse, not better. For once, however, it appears that even some folks in Congress realize this and are already interested in revisiting the law. Some of this article is just repeating the things that we posted last week about the FTC exploring other options such as a bounty system encouraging people to track down spammers, but the fact that more politicians are realizing CAN SPAM isn't working is a good thing. Of course, we still haven't heard from the Senators who were so proud of themselves for coming up with the law in the first place.

Congress Pretends To Ban Spam, While
Spamming Itself

Congress Pretends To Ban Spam, While
Spamming Itself 12/29/2003 04:52 AM
It's no secret that Congress has a nasty habit of passing laws that include an exemption for themselves (which really should make you wonder). It's no surprise, of course, that the recentl y passed "CAN SPAM" law includes so many loopholes that many people (including us) think it's more a blueprint on how to spam, rather than a law forbidding spam. Among the loopholes is one that makes it perfectly legal for Congressional representatives to send spam, and, man, are they taking advantage of that. Apparently, many members of Congress are buying up email lists to spam possible constituents to get them to "sign up" for special email lists. While those email lists are opt-in, the fact that they're getting the word out via spam seems particularly bad. They claim that since they get more people opting-in than opting-out that people don't mind. That ignores the fact that most people won't opt-out, but will simply trash the email. This just adds more evidence to show how little many of our Congressional representatives actually understands what they're talking about when it comes to technology issues.

Congress, Yahoo! Slam Spam

Congress, Yahoo! Slam Spam 12/12/2003 04:16 PM
PC Magazine Dec 12 2003 4:03PM ET

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream 06/05/2004 07:31 PM
I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....

Congress Approves Anti-Spam Legislation

Congress Approves Anti-Spam Legislation 12/09/2003 01:26 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 9 2003 1:04PM ET

Congress passes anti-spam bill

Congress passes anti-spam bill 12/09/2003 09:45 AM
'Ham fisted' CAN-SPAM Act

Congress sends Can Spam bill to Bush

Congress sends Can Spam bill to Bush 12/09/2003 08:41 PM
InternetRetailer.com Dec 9 2003 7:02PM ET

Congress approves anti-spam bill

Congress approves anti-spam bill 12/08/2003 09:29 PM
CNN Dec 8 2003 8:35PM ET

Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill

Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill 12/08/2003 09:29 PM
AP via Daily Press Dec 8 2003 8:36PM ET

Congress approves anti-spam legislation

Congress approves anti-spam legislation 12/09/2003 02:44 AM
USA Today Dec 9 2003 2:03AM ET

Congress approves first national
anti-spam legislation

Congress approves first national
anti-spam legislation 12/08/2003 08:27 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 8 2003 6:48PM ET

Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White
House

Congress Sends Anti-Spam Bill To White
House 12/08/2003 08:19 PM

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala.

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes

Review: Advanced Spam Manager Attacks
Viruses, Spam For Exchange, Notes 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:25PM GMT

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam

Spam king Secure your home PC or you
could be helping send spam 08/03/2004 07:21 AM
BBC Aug 3 2004 11:45AM GMT

AOL Falls In Love With The Wrong Spam
Stats -- Says Spam Decreased

AOL Falls In Love With The Wrong Spam
Stats -- Says Spam Decreased 12/27/2004 01:32 PM
AOL is claiming that their new spam filter has greatly reduced spam, creating nice looking headlines about less spam. Of course, you could question their findings. The details show that what was reduced was spam complaints. This might be a proxy for the amount of spam that got through to inboxes, or it might just show that AOL subscribers have wised up and realized that reporting spam to AOL doesn't seem to do a bit of good -- and they've just given up on it.

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof

New zombie spam technique may send spam
levels through the roof 02/05/2005 09:36 PM
Warnings abound about a change in tactics on the part of zombie PC network operators. As a result, spam levels could rise to nearly 95% of all e-mails sent.

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business 11/03/2003 11:40 PM
I get inundated with more and more spam every day, and it's frustrating as anything. I want it to stop. However, if politicians insist on passing bad legislation in their attempts to stop spam, that's not going to do any good. I've already complained about the new California legislation and it looks like I'm not alone. A guy who runs a consulting firm and writes for Business Week points out why California's anti-spam law won't do a thing about spam, but will make life more difficult for legitimate small businesses. He describes a situation where he did a very targeted mailing for a company. It's probably up to your definition of spam as to whether or not you consider his mailing spam. I tend to draw the line on whether or not the mailing was "bulk" - which it sounds like his was. I believe that if the email is truly targeted and personalized about a potential business relationship, then it's hard to call it spam. The California law disagrees. In fact, the sponsor of the bill claims that any email contact between two companies is not legitimate if it hasn't been initiated under some other form. That's simply ridiculous. As I've said before, plenty of "commercial" websites contact Techdirt every day about the possibility of partnerships or links. Under California's anti-spam law, I could charge them with spam. I recently heard from a major technology magazine, asking if I would add them to my Quicklinks box. Should I sue them for spam? According to the law, I could.

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam 05/20/2004 07:05 PM
Ronnie Scelson is one of the shortlist of spammers who just seems to love publicity. While many spammers like to hide away, Scelson's always willing to talk. He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today, claiming that he is now compl ying with CAN-SPAM, but threatened to ignore the law if not enough of his spam messages were getting through filters. He actually has the audacity to complain that now that CAN-SPAM is in effect, ISPs should be required to let his mail through. Maybe the filters are a little to thick around his head and the message isn't getting through to him: the reason his spam is filtered is because people don't want it.

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam 01/07/2004 06:36 PM
We all know now that the CAN SPAM law is a disaster and is unlikely to do anything useful in the battle against spam. It's also becoming clear that the entire point of the bill was never to stop spam, but to make a few folks in Congress look good (which seems to be the entire point of most politics these days). First, Business Week spends some time comparing the mostly effective federal "Do Not Call" list with CAN SPAM. The DNC list was planned out carefully by the FTC and the FCC, and, while it upset many telemarketers, it was designed in a way to be effective. There was also enough time, and enough publicity given to the list that people knew about it and had the opportunity to sign up for it - while marketers had the ability to prepare on their end as well. With CAN SPAM, however, it was rushed through Congress with little thought towards whether or not it would actually do anything and without any money to actually deal with any of these cases. Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that the sponsors of the bill asked the FTC to sue a spammer the very first week the bill was in effect in order to make a big "splash" so they could pat themselves on the back - even as the spam levels continued to increase. FTC Chair Timothy Muris (who has spoken out against this spam law) apparently laughed them off and pointed out it was impossible to do such a thing. First of all, in order to violate the law, the spammers have to ignore an opt-out request. Then, the FTC would have to track down who the actual spammer was - with no additional funds, because the law didn't provide for them.

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
The risk in sending commercial emails overseas is not so much from the legislators; it is from the ISP’s who have the power to Black List your company. A new email format has been suggested that not only complies to Best Practices it also meets or exceeds the requirements of Can Spam, The Australian Spam Act and the EU Directives. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Microsoft calls for outbound spam
filtering against spam

Microsoft calls for outbound spam
filtering against spam 06/04/2004 10:42 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 4 2004 2:14PM GMT

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious 04/29/2004 01:28 PM
Aren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal ground, they're moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.

Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police

Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police 06/02/2004 05:09 PM
Source: ClickZ - Want a real solution to spam? The search engines should agree to publish lists of companies they've banned. That would help consumers seeking SEM firms to understand which to avoid. If they do use a banned firm,...

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea 01/03/2005 10:21 AM

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