March 7, 2007"Offensive" or "inappropriate" spam has been steadily declining, and in February only constituted 3 percent of junk mail, Symantec says.TAGS:Symantec Corp., spam, e-mail
July 19, 2005New services block junk messages using a list of IP addresses that are known to be sending spam or should not be sending e-mail at all.TAGS:Trend Micro Inc., spam, IP address, anti-spam, IP, e-mail
April 11, 2005The Pew Internet and American Life Project turns up some surprising data about people's attitudes toward junk e-mail.TAGS:spam, Internet user, least, study, e-mail
December 17, 2004Agency issues final rules as to what constitutes commercial bulk e-mail, or spam, which is subject to restrictions under Can-Spam Act.TAGS:CAN-SPAM Act, regulation, spam, rule, agency, e-mail
August 6, 2003We hear frequent calls for replacing the Internet's Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), but why is this needed? Think of the spam issue as you would cockroach infestation.TAGS:spam, mechanism, technique, e-mail
October 13, 2003Online marketer DoubleClick says more and more e-mail users are devising their own methods to rid their mailboxes of spam--namely, deleting it without first reading it.TAGS:DoubleClick Inc., spam, study, e-mail, retailer