- FTC's working for a spam clampdown. No real details in this article. [cam]
- U.S. Launches Spam Crackdown. So far, it's just the chain-letter spam they're targeting. [google news]
- Heavier artillery in spam war needed: Government little help against junk e-mailers. As if that's a big surprise. [some guy]
- To: Porn 'spammers' From: E-mail users. While I don't like spam, the solution to children seeing porn in their email is trivially easy: Shut off HTML rendering in email. It's unsafe at any age. There's also the disturbing quote in this article:
I can send out 50,000 e-mails, and if a dozen people click on the link, it's worth my time
. That's the equation we need to change in order to stop spam. Make it more expensive for the bastards. [some guy] - This article on Spam and web-visible email addresses suggests you probably shouldn't have an email address available anywhere on the web. Ugh. [daypop]
- Brad Templeton wrote Origin of the term spam to mean net abuse to attempt to explain things. It seems like a good bit of history. [some guy]
- Not All Asian E-Mail Is Spam, but enough is to prompt some folks to blacklist an entire continent.