spam in comment and analysis
'Spam is in the eye of the beholder'
Comment Talking to experts on the subject of spam, the same phrase has cropped up on more than one occasion, from people on completely different continents. In one instance it cropped up twice in the space of two back-to-back interviews: "Spam is in the... [10 Jun 2003]
Spam laws: "Too little, too late" is too kind
Comment Emails to companies will not be covered by the legislation and so the actual amount of spam covered by the legislation is actually the minority in terms of total spam traffic. Businesses, who are hardest hit by the spam problem, are still lacking... [18 Sep 2003]
Spam: Enough is enough
Comment After years of tolerating the annoyance of spam, companies and ISPs are starting to take the problem of unsolicited email seriously. ISPs have been urged to act in their own interests to cut out junk mail, with anti-spam firm Brightmail producing... [24 Oct 2002]
Leader: Spam - your brand, your problem?
Leader The fastest growing spam campaign relates to the sale of fake Rolex watches and appears to be carried out by Online Replica Store. In other words, how many watches won't be sold if the brand become synonymous with spam? [25 Oct 2004]
Spam and data protection: know the law and take precautions
Comment The new EU privacy directive aimed at tackling the rising tide of spam emails comes into force on 11 December. The Privacy in Electronic Communications directive will come into force from the 11 December and should give marketers across the... [10 Dec 2003]
Leader: Spam wars hotting up
Leader The battle to conquer spam has taken a number of interesting turns so far this week. While silicon.com has stated all along that it will be technology which wins the war, there is also increasing pressure on the UK government to make the kind of... [05 Apr 2004]
Leader: Spam's inglorious tenth year
Leader Spammers are being told they will have to mark all pornographic spam email with the words "Sexually-Explicit:" in the subject line in order to make it easier for people to filter out the obscene emails if they don't want to see it. [14 Apr 2004]
Leader: Spam laws shame the UK
Leader We wanted to know why the UK's anti-spam laws are so lame and so we asked the DTI just who it consulted with in drafting the laws. Of course they all said spam is a good thing and businesses want to receive unsolicited email. [03 Jun 2005]
Leader: Microsoft - spam warrior or self-server?
Leader So does this prove that legislation and prosecution can win the war on spam? The victims here weren't perceived to be the recipients of the millions of spam emails which are sent every hour around the world - the victim here was Microsoft, in the... [19 Jul 2004]
Leader: Spam sufferers - show some more patience
Leader The media, the industry and the end users, now largely convinced effective technology rather than policy will start to turn around the high levels of spam have been promised an improvement in return for our patience. [11 Oct 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: SMS spam, go phish and Windows Media Center
Comment Various national legal regimes are trying to control spam. Other mobile providers are seeking to deploy filtering services on their appliances to defeat the growth of spam. Vodafone, for example, will also provide a feature to forward spam to... [29 Sep 2003]
Government wakes up to spam problem
Comment Conservative estimates suggest that spam makes up around 30 to 40 per cent of all email traffic. Stephen Timms may well know spam is a "curse on the internet", but it appears to be a curse he's no closer to exorcising. [27 Mar 2003]
Ovum On: Wireless spam
Comment Japanese operators have been trying to crack down on wireless spam, something that will increasingly become an important issue for wireless operators around the world. Spam falls outside this framework and is defined by Ovum as push messaging that... [17 May 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Fortune telling spam
Comment There are plenty of types of spam but one breed annoys Martin Brampton more than most. Mysterious emails about investments? Don't make him laugh. Fraught questions about Microsoft and open source pushed me to try to lift the veil that hides the... [06 Aug 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Spam tax, Microsoft licensing twist and the weakening greenback
Comment Such a tax would undoubtedly generate charges of 'censorship' from some of an unrealistically liberal mindset but many ordinary email users would pay happily to remove the existing scourge of spam. However, a tax levied at a rate of only a dollar... [02 Jun 2003]
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