Unsolicited email is no longer a mere annoyance - it is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses and their IT infrastructure. Technology, education and legislation are all part of the fight... but is it a fight that can be won?
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Leader: The drugs don't work
They just make it worse...
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Leader: ISPs must be forced to stop spam
Governments around the world take note...
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Leader: The mixed blessing of paid-for email
So if it won't reduce spam, what will it do?
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Leader: Is justice really being meted out to spammers?
Or are their other activities landing them in trouble with the law... ?
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Leader: UK soft on spam
More must be done to fight junk emailers
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Devil's Advocate: How to catch a spammer
To show how hard it is to track a spammer through legitimate means, Martin Brampton attempts to hunt down some individuals plaguing his website. See how far he gets - and what stands in his way.
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Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers
Lawyers Simon Briskman, Sarah Wright and Lise-Anne Dunn from London-based firm Olswang give advice to a silicon.com reader on how to deal with a spammer who's stealing the name of a small business. Does the site owner have any legal recourse?
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Leader: When is spam not spam?
From the kind of pernicious spammers who bombard our inboxes daily to marketers who perhaps send a few stray emails, for whatever reason - all react badly to being linked with spam. For those at the more legit end of the scale it is easy to see why. But who are these people who claim they aren't sending spam? If they don't like the label, they shouldn't send spam.
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Leader: Has Lycos empowered the spammers?
While the anti-spam plan is filed in a drawer the internet community must worry about the message this has sent out...
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Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Plans are afoot to attack spammers, not by physically visiting their homes in Boca Raton and landing one on them, or even by using the power of the law to bring them to justice, but by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind. Will Sturgeon shares his views on this noteworthy plan.
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Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
In the final instalment of this three-part series, silicon.com's expert panel answers reader questions on stopping spam, antivirus mail failings, hijacking email addresses, spyware liability, spoofing and more.
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Leader: Spam's inglorious tenth year
FTC marks the occasion with toothless display of pointless proportions...
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Leader: Mobile spam - over-hyped
And over here? Only to a degree, for now...
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Leader: Turning the gun on the spam busters
A victory of sorts...
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The Bloor Perspective: SMS spam, go phish and Windows Media Center
This week Robin Bloor and his team provide us with their take on spamming on mobiles, scam ID theft emails and Microsoft's push to be at the heart of your home...
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Careful where you're putting that technology
Is it more trouble than it's worth?
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Anti-spam legislation: Chocolate teapot or Holy Grail?
Is it worth the paper it's written on?
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Take control of your inbox in 10 easy steps
Spam isn't just offers of generic Viagra, unclaimed fortunes, bogus lotteries and pornography...
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Why you should have a spam policy in place
How many reasons do you want?
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Not so wonderful spam
Doubling every 18 months - just like Moore's Law
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'Spam is in the eye of the beholder'
One man's spam is another man's miracle penis enlargement...
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The Devil's Advocate: Buried by junk
But is it all bad... should we just go with the flow?
Round-Up
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.03
Email deprivation driving us to distraction...
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The Ovum View: Is email worth the hassle?
Could you live without it?
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The Bloor Perspective: Spam tax, Microsoft licensing twist and the weakening greenback
This week Robin Bloor and his team of analysts look at a controversial anti-spam measure, a promising Microsoft licensing development and exchange rate implications...
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Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Porn or no porn?
Don't demonise the net - let it work for us
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It's been another week of spam, spam, spam...
...and more spam...
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Devil's Advocate: Fortune telling spam
Forget those balanced portfolios...
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Ovum On: Wireless spam
The spam in Japan falls mainly in the hand...
Cheat Sheet
Cheat Sheet: Spam
Nothing to do with canned ham...
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
A hiding place for scams, spam and phishing…
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
Video spam and PowerPoint slides next on the menu, warns MessageLabs...
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
Made in China...
US court upholds anti-spam law
Junks convicted spammer's appeal...
Spammers dust off their botnet passports
Targeting pastures new...
Stories from around the web...
Beware: You have mail Times Online
The economies of spam Global Politician
Special report: Fighting spam and cyberscams CNET News.com
Spam ain't dead yet PC Magazine
Slaying Spam-Spewing Zombie PCs PC World
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