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[	February 21, 2002	]	USOC Turns Over Ohno E-Mail Threats to FBI

Threatening e-mails regarding short-track speedskating gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno have been turned over to the FBI for investigation, the U.S. Olympic Committee said today ... »
[	February 20, 2002	]	New product: Advanced Mailbox Processor

We are glad to present to you our new program - Advanced Mailbox Processor. AMP is a powerful and user-friendly program intended for extracting owner's names and e-mail addresses from the local files, and making e-mails list. Using AMP considerably reduces time for the processing of the post bases of in comparison with manual or semi-automatic processing messages and completely excludes mistakes. It allows to process the files in various formats and mailboxes of the majority of mailers, including the "Outlook Express 5", "MS Outlook", "Netscape Messenger", "The Bat!", "Qualcomm Eudora", "Incredi Mail", etc. The list of e-mails and names which was received as a result of scanning, can be saved in a text file, file in the CSV format or can be exported in the MS Excel document. We are hope that the program will help you to make and correct the lists of your clients on basis of your correspondence data and save your important time. You can learn more about AMP at AMP home and download it from our downloads page.
[	February 20, 2002	]	AltaVista to end its free e-mail service March 31

AltaVista Co. said Tuesday it will drop its free e-mail service next month as part of its effort to focus on making money from its online search engine. About 400,000 e-mailboxes maintained by AltaVista will be closed March 31, the company said Tuesday. Only half of those e-mailboxes were actively used, AltaVista said. ... »
[	February 20, 2002	]	'Robots'surf Net to harvest addresses for spam e-mail

An e-mail address posted on the Internet is vulnerable to junk e-mail within hours of being online and recipients can expect to receive a lot more spam, according to a New York-based Web site operator. In an effort to snuff out the insidious practices of Internet marketers, Justin Beech embedded a randomly generated e-mail address in the code of his Web page, dslreports.com, and concealed it so well it was invisible to the average surfer. Only a curious programmer who bothered to look at the Web page's source code would have seen the random string of letters and numbers, followed by @dslreports.com. ... »
[	February 19, 2002	]	E-mails that provided the proof

Last month Julie Bower was awarded Ł1.4 million by her former employer, Schroders Investment Management, on the ground of sex discrimination. Two weeks ago, Rachel Walker, a black secretary who sued law firm Charles Russell, was awarded a substantial payout, this time on grounds of race and sex discrimination. There is a common thread to both cases: the crucial evidence was captured on e-mail. The case against Charles Russell is thought to be the first arising from a discriminatory e-mail; and in the Bower case, e-mails were cited as clear evidence of management motives. Both show how easily e-mails can land an employer in trouble and copies of e-mails are now routinely requested with other relevant documents in discrimination cases. ... »
[	February 18, 2002	]	Filtering junk e-mail

American workers, already inundated by unwanted e-mails, can plan on devoting more time to cleaning their in-boxes of the unwelcome solicitations, or spam. According to a recent report by Forrester Research, e-mail advertising, which often arrives as spam, was expected to nearly triple in 2001. Forrester predicted companies spent $1.1 billion on mass e-mailing services last year, up from $400 million in 2000. "I get a ton of spam, which is a big pain," said Ted Pukas, president of Magpage Internet Services Inc., an Internet provider in Yorklyn. ... »
[	February 18, 2002	]	Self-Shredding E-Mail

In the offline world, it can be quite a challenge to retrieve and destroy confidential documents from a business deal gone sour or a top-secret project that involved outside help. The options boil down to either trusting your former business partner - or resorting to illegal breaking and entering. But e-mail is changing those rules, thanks to virtual shredding. Senders can destroy messages either remotely or automatically, without a recipient's consent or cooperation. And that gives senders unprecedented control over what they distribute. ... »
[	February 18, 2002	]	Virtual E-Mail Shredders Give Control

In the offline world, it can be quite a challenge to retrieve and destroy confidential documents from a business deal gone sour or a top-secret project that involved outside help. The options boil down to either trusting your former business partner - or resorting to illegal breaking and entering. ... »
[	February 17, 2002	]	Australia Tries to Crack Down on Spam E-Mail

Australia launched an investigation on Monday into measures used to counter unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam, after a dramatic increase in unwanted e-mails in the past year, particularly pornography. Information Technology Minister Richard Alston said a lobby group opposed to spam, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, estimated that Internet users in Australia received six times more unsolicited mail in 2001 than in 2000. ... »
[	February 15, 2002	]	DMA Readies Anti-Terrorism Effort

The Direct Marketing Association's fundraising effort for The Advertising Council's anti-terrorism Campaign for Freedom will break March 4. The DMA will use mail, e-mail, space ads, telemarketing and online banners to target marketing heads at large corporations and decision-makers at advertising, marketing and promotions agencies. "About 6,500 mail pieces are scheduled to drop," said Christina Duffney, a spokeswoman for the DMA in New York. ... »