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October 30, 2000 |
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Australian jailed for U.S. stock spam fraud |
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MELBOURNE, Oct 30 (Reuters) - An Australian was ordered on Monday to serve three months of a two-year jail sentence for using the Internet illegally to tout the U.S. shares of Rentech Inc, a developer of gas to liquid fuels conversion technology. ... »
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October 30, 2000 |
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Internet Marketing Firm Unveils Web-Enabled Email Marketing Software |
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FAIRLAWN, Ohio (BUSINESS WIRE) — CrossTownTraffic,
a marketing services firm, has unveiled its new, Web-enabled email
marketing software GreenLight. The software is a permission-based
email marketing system that is fully customizable and offers messages
in a user-friendly Web page format. Companies can measure
effectiveness of GreenLight campaigns through a sophisticated tracking
system. ... »
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October 30, 2000 |
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E-Mail Is No 1 Wish for UK Mobile Web Surfers |
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LONDON (Reuters) — Mobile phone users can talk to each other all day but that is not
enough — the ability to send email is top of their list for their next Web-enabled
phone, Internet experts said on Monday. ... »
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October 30, 2000 |
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E-mail's popularity creating a glut of legal issues |
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There's a monster in your corporate e-mail. It's in your in-box and your servers. It was born in the bowels of e-mail's popularity, which is being churned out by the 275 million corporate mailboxes in use today, according to the newsletter "Messaging Online." ... »
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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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