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October 27, 2000 |
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Spam Attacks at All-Time High |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ — The amount of spam received by email users has
grown at an astounding rate over the past year according to new information released by
Brightmail, Inc., the premier provider of spam-filtering solutions. Brightmail experts
reported today that they are intercepting an average of 4,900 junk email attacks per day -- 400% higher than a year ago. To combat this problem, leading ISPs such as AT&T; WorldNet Services and EarthLink are using the Brightmail Anti-Spam Solution, the most complete email filtering solution on the market today. ... »
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October 27, 2000 |
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Techs Suspended for Sending Porn E-Mails |
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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Eighteen technicians at a factory in France have been suspended
after pornographic e-mail they were exchanging at work ended up in the inbox of a female
executive at a television network in the United States. ... »
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October 26, 2000 |
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New Email Rules Could Cause Legal Confusion Say Experts |
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Leading e-commerce lawyers have warned that controversial employee monitoring regulations, set in motion on Tuesday, are unclear.
The new DTI rules are part of the RIP Act, giving employers virtual carte blanche to monitor Internet access, emails and phone calls. They contradict parts of a new Data Protection Commission code of practice and could also be open to a human rights challenge in UK courts, say lawyers.
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October 25, 2000 |
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EarthLink Unveils Anti-Spam Service |
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Internet service provider EarthLink yesterday debuted a new anti-spam service called E-mail Protection Agency, or EPA.
EarthLink said it designed EPA as both an extra service for its ISP subscribers and as a resource for the Internet community at large in its fight against spam. EarthLink, Atlanta, three years ago waged a seminal legal battle against "spam king" Sanford Wallace and Cyber Promotions. EPA has three main functions: filtering unsolicited and inappropriate e-mail, screening for viral attachments and strengthening spam-related legal protections.
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October 25, 2000 |
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New EU Framework Will Ban Spamming |
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Commission is drafting a new regulatory framework for telecommunications that includes a ban on all unsolicited e-mails unless recipients opt in, or give prior consent. ... »
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October 25, 2000 |
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Intel Relaxed Over Email Security |
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Intel's dinky little eMail Station, part of the InBusiness range it inherited from Dayna, turns out to be susceptible to simple denial of service attacks, but the chip behemoth doesn't seem to care a Hell of a lot. ... »
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October 21, 2000 |
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Program Sniffs Out Scathing E-Mails |
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Authors of scathing or obscene e-mails can now have one last chance to think about what they have written before hitting the "send" button. ... »
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October 19, 2000 |
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EMail on the Marketing Fast-Track |
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An Internet research organization has projected the use of e-mail for marketing and advertising to grow at the rate of $1 billion annually--to more than $4.5 billion by 2003.
As if e-mail users didn't notice it already on their desktops, e-mail sales messages--solicited or not--are on a high-growth, fast track.
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October 19, 2000 |
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Advanced Maillist Verify 3.0 has been released today |
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We have two good news for Advanced Maillist Verify (AMV)
users. As you know, AMV has open ActiveX/COM interface
since version 2.1 and so can be easily integrated into
almost any web-server working on Win32 platform. Now there
are two ways to do that... ... »
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October 17, 2000 |
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'Spammer Hammer' Pete Wellborn Crushes Benchmark Print Supply |
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ATLANTA, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Atlanta attorney Pete Wellborn
released the following statement: Atlanta attorney Pete Wellborn of Arnall Golden & Gregory LLP has obtained
the broadest permanent injunction ever issued against a sender of unsolicited
commercial e-mail, known as "spam." ... »
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