5-20-2004 71% of Spam Servers are Located in China
According to Commtouch Software research 71% of all spam servers are located in this People Republic. "Since Jan. 1, we've seen probably a 30% to 40% increase" in spam traffic" Commtouch CEO says. BusinessWeek reports about this issue."
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I say we turn off the Main Internet Routers for inbound traffic from China. :|
3-18-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=5&u=/washpost/20040318/tc_washpost/a2279_2004mar17">Spam Driving Internet Users Away From E-mail</a>
Maybe there is hope afterall against Spam:
3-10-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=8&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_hi_te/internet_spam_2">Internet Providers Sue Hundreds for Spam </a>
WASHINGTON - Some of the nation's largest Internet providers, in an unusual joint effort, said Wednesday they filed six lawsuits against hundreds of people who were accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new U.S. law against "spam."
The legal actions by Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc., Earthlink Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., represent the first major industry actions under the "can spam" legislation that went into effect Jan. 1. The lawsuits, filed in federal courts in California, Georgia, Virginia and Washington state.
The companies said the defendants include some of the nation's most notorious large-scale spammers.
2-8-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~1938412,00.html">California Man Sues Penis-enlargement Spam firms says Products do not work</a>
A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work.
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Now a Man is sueing because the Crap below doesn't work!!!
2-6-2004 The Can Spam sure is helping slow down the Spam, now I'm getting at least 200 of these a day,
Is anyone tired of getting of this yet???
Hi,
Super Vbagra - Cizlis is finally here
Dubbed "The Weekend Pitl" by experts
AVAILXBLE FACTCRY DIRECT
AT A FRACTION OF THE COST
* LVNGER LPSTING
Up to 36 hours
compared to 4 hours
for vikgra
* ACTS FASTER
from as little as 15 minvtes
compared to 60 minctes for Vdagra
Securely and discrxetly online
Avoid the embarrassment of waiting in doctmr's office
Clwck Here for
Well well well, the Nigerian E-mails weren't even from Nigeria:
1-30-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=7&u=/ap/20040130/ap_on_hi_te/netherlands_email_scam_busted">Dutch Police Arrest 52 in Nigerian E-Mail Scam </a>
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of defrauding gullible Internet users in one of the largest busts of the infamous "Nigerian e-mail" scam.
Also known as an "advance fee" or "419" scheme, the scammers sent spam e-mails asking for help in transferring a large sum of money out of a politically or economically troubled country, in exchange for a generous percentage.
Robert Meulenbroek, spokesman for the Amsterdam prosecutor's office, said the ring broken this week had reaped millions of euros (dollars). Recent victims included people from the United States, Japan, England, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Nigeria has recently stepped up its efforts to eradicate the scam, which taints its image abroad. The Central Bank of Nigeria denies any connection to the scammers, and Nigerian agencies have been placing warning advertisements in international newspapers for years.
The scam is sometimes called a "419" fraud due to the Nigerian criminal code outlawing it.
England got it right, that Spammers must get your permission first. The U.S., Nooo, you have to replay back to every Spammer, unreal.
1-5-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040105/ap_on_hi_te/spam_suit_1">Washington Man Sues Pennysylvania Telemarketer Firm for $600,000 Over Unsolicited E-Mails </a>
HOPWOOD, Pa. - A man from Washington state has accused a western Pennsylvania telemarketer of sending him hundreds of unsolicited e-mails and has sued the company under his state's anti-spam law.
Judge throws Anti-Spam Lawsuit out. Florida Computer Techs Free to Spam:
12-30-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031230/tc_nm/tech_aol_dc">AOL Anti-Spam Lawsuit Dismissed</a>
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by AOL against a group of Florida computer technicians that the leading Internet provider charged with helping deliver spam e-mails, lawyers for the technicians said on Tuesday.
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031216-4.html">12-16-2003 President Bush speech on Anti-Spam Law</a>
12-9-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=4&u=/ap/20031209/ap_on_hi_te/internet_spam">U.S. Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill </a>
To reply, or not to reply? The new legislation Congress approved to stem the flood of unwanted e-mails will require a fundamental change in ways that Internet users respond to overflowing inboxes.
As the deluge of unsolicited pitches offering prescription drugs and cheap loans worsened during the Internet's growth, experts have cautioned computer users against doing what comes naturally: Reply to unwanted e-mails to demand an end to them.
The reason? Unscrupulous spammers deem each such demand a verification that someone actually received their e-mails ? and promptly sent dozens more to the same address.
But the "can spam" legislation that Congress approved Monday requires unsolicited e-mails to include a mechanism so recipients could indicate they did not want future mass mailings. Computer users are being asked to ignore years of anti-spam training.
"It will require a change in behavior," acknowledged Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., one of the bill's sponsors.
Some critics said the bill didn't go far enough to discourage unwanted e-mails. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mails called the congressional effort "really disappointing." The group prefers a law requiring marketers to obtain someone's permission before sending them any e-mails. It said the alternative method of consumers asking marketers not to send them any more messages hasn't worked.
"What Congress is effectively doing is ignoring these laws that haven't worked everywhere else they've tried," said the group's spokesman, John Mozena. "This bill fails the most basic tests for anti-spam legislation; it doesn't tell anybody not to spam."
12-5-2003<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031205/tc_nm/tech_yahoo_dc">Yahoo Proposes New Internet Anti-Spam Structure</a>
Internet services company Yahoo Inc. on Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender.
11-19-2003 Congress thinks Taxing E-Mail will stop Spam
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4220626.html">http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4220626.html</a>
E-mail tax may help stop spam, Dayton says
Elizabeth Dunbar, Star Tribune Washington
Published November 19, 2003
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If Congress is going to stop unsolicited commercial
e-mail from swamping computer users, Sen. Mark Dayton says legislators
might need to consider "a minuscule tax" on e-mail. [...]
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I missed when Italy was the first Country to adopt an Anti-Spam Law but today England has adopted an "Unlimited" Spam Law in an effort to highly discourage Spammers by hitting them where it hurts over and over. It will cost Spammers $8,000 when they are caught and they can be dragged in to Court over and over unlimited amounts of times.
This is a great first step in this battle against crap.
The article points out the biggest cuprit of the problem is in fact the U.S.
With $100,000 fines and 3 years in Jail, I'm sure there won't be any Italian Spammers.
Another indication of how the rest of the world is now on the forefront of Technology and progressing with the Internet & Computers in a responsible way while the U.S. continues to be a laughing stock, reckless and focused in completely wrong directions.
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11-13-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031113/ap_on_hi_te/spam_s_new_frontiers_2">Spammers Now Clogging Blogs, Cell Phones </a>
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging and even Web log comments.
Howard Rheingold, a futurist who predicts always-on communication will revolutionize public discourse, is worried that all these new forms of spam could freeze the revolution in its tracks.
There will be no great social transformation if cell phones are turnToday, most of the attention of lawmakers has been on e-mail spam, which is estimated to comprise nearly half of e-mail traffic. Attempts to write broader laws have not succeeded, and might whittle away at free speech.
"We ought to be legislating general concepts ? things like, you can't market to somebody who's asked you not to," said David Sorkin, a professor who studies spam laws at John Marshall Law School.
ed off, instant messenger programs shut down or blog comments disabled to halt the flow of offers for online porn or cheap drugs.
11-6-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031106/tc_afp/us_internet_spam_031106204340">US regulators target "pop-up spam" scheme using Windows loophole</a>
The FTC action targeted D Squared, claiming the company "engaged in an unfair practice by interfering with consumers' use of their computers, specifically by causing a stream of multiple, unwanted Windows Messenger Service pop-ups to appear on their computer screens."
<blockquote>Quote
Originally posted by: guyver01
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5089720.html">Missouri files spam suit under new law</a>
Missouri's attorney general filed lawsuits against two alleged junk e-mailers this week, the first cases brought under the state's new antispam law.
The lawsuits, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis, charge Phillip Nixon of Palm Beach, Fla., and proprietors of the Web site Fundetective.com, of Boca Raton, Fla., with violating the law.
"Spam is the unwanted cybersalesman with its foot in your e-mail door," Attorney General Jay Nixon said in a statement. "These lawsuits to enforce Missouri's new law are a way to close that door."
The antispam legislation, enacted Aug. 28, requires that all unsolicited commercial e-mail be labeled in the subject line with the tag "ADV," for "advertisement." Adult-related content must carry the tag "ADV:ADLT." The law also prohibits marketers from sending promotions to people who have requested to receive no further e-mail communications after one instance. Penalties are $5,000 for each violation, not to exceed $25,000 per day.
The suit against Phillip Nixon claims that he sent unlabeled commercial e-mail and violated requests for no further communications. Scott Holste, spokesman for the attorney general's office, said Phillip Nixon had sent at least five messages to an e-mail box on its network. The Fundetective.com suit alleges that that operation sent unlabeled spam.
Missouri is one of about 35 states with antispam laws and is part of a movement to use legal measures to crush spammers. California enacted antispam legislation last month with the stiffest penalties of all states. That law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, allows citizens and ISPs (Internet service providers) to seek civil damages of up to $1,000 per e-mail per customer and $1 million per mass mailing.
There is no federal law on the books as of yet, but Congress is seriously considering two antispam bills, the Anti-Spam Act--reintroduced this summer--and the Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act, both of which would make it illegal to send unsolicited bulk e-mail that does not include a way for recipients to exempt themselves from future mailings.[/quote]
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9-23-2003 Hard to believe but a State has gone out on a limb and joined the Anti-Spam fight, California. Gray Davis has nothing to lose so now he decides to Champion something for the people rather than Corporations for a change.
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_186_bill_20030911_enrolled.html">Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail</a>
Can cost a Spammer as much as $100,000 a day and up to 1 Million dollars per incident.
That ought to stop them as well as make a dent in the 37 billion dollar California budget.
Edit: 10-11-2003 Davis is gone, congrats Arnold. Hopefully Arnold will also champion such causes as the fight against Spam.
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<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030918/wr_nm/tech_internet_spam_dc_2">UK Cracks Down on Spammers with New Privacy Law</a>
Britain on Thursday became the second country in Europe to criminalize spam, that unwanted barrage of e-mail and mobile phone text messages that promise get-rich-quick schemes, cheap home loans and a better sex life.
The unsolicited messages, which industry groups say account for more than half of all e-mails sent, have become the scourge of Internet users everywhere.
Under the new UK law, spammers face a 5,000 pound ($8,057) fine if convicted in a magistrates court. The fine from a jury trial would be unlimited. Spammers would not face prison...
Italian lawmakers imposed tough new regulations to fine spammers up to 90,000 euros ($101,600) and impose a maximum prison term of three years.
Anti-spam groups cheered the Italian law, but acknowledged it likely would do little to stop the unwanted flow of messages. The biggest spammers are based in the United States and Asia.
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9-19-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030919/ap_on_hi_te/spam_ban&cid=562&ncid=716">Spammers Now Need Permission in Britain </a>
The Australian government announced even tougher plans to crack down on spam Thursday, proposing to fine those who send unsolicited messages up to A$1.1 million (US$726,000) a day
According to Commtouch Software research 71% of all spam servers are located in this People Republic. "Since Jan. 1, we've seen probably a 30% to 40% increase" in spam traffic" Commtouch CEO says. BusinessWeek reports about this issue."
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I say we turn off the Main Internet Routers for inbound traffic from China. :|
3-18-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=5&u=/washpost/20040318/tc_washpost/a2279_2004mar17">Spam Driving Internet Users Away From E-mail</a>
Maybe there is hope afterall against Spam:
3-10-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=8&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_hi_te/internet_spam_2">Internet Providers Sue Hundreds for Spam </a>
WASHINGTON - Some of the nation's largest Internet providers, in an unusual joint effort, said Wednesday they filed six lawsuits against hundreds of people who were accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new U.S. law against "spam."
The legal actions by Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc., Earthlink Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., represent the first major industry actions under the "can spam" legislation that went into effect Jan. 1. The lawsuits, filed in federal courts in California, Georgia, Virginia and Washington state.
The companies said the defendants include some of the nation's most notorious large-scale spammers.
2-8-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~1938412,00.html">California Man Sues Penis-enlargement Spam firms says Products do not work</a>
A California man on Thursday sued a slew of international companies, including a Greeley distributor, alleging the penis-enlargement products they market and distribute do not work.
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Now a Man is sueing because the Crap below doesn't work!!!
2-6-2004 The Can Spam sure is helping slow down the Spam, now I'm getting at least 200 of these a day,
Is anyone tired of getting of this yet???
Hi,
Super Vbagra - Cizlis is finally here
Dubbed "The Weekend Pitl" by experts
AVAILXBLE FACTCRY DIRECT
AT A FRACTION OF THE COST
* LVNGER LPSTING
Up to 36 hours
compared to 4 hours
for vikgra
* ACTS FASTER
from as little as 15 minvtes
compared to 60 minctes for Vdagra
Securely and discrxetly online
Avoid the embarrassment of waiting in doctmr's office
Clwck Here for
Well well well, the Nigerian E-mails weren't even from Nigeria:
1-30-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=7&u=/ap/20040130/ap_on_hi_te/netherlands_email_scam_busted">Dutch Police Arrest 52 in Nigerian E-Mail Scam </a>
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch police have arrested 52 people suspected of defrauding gullible Internet users in one of the largest busts of the infamous "Nigerian e-mail" scam.
Also known as an "advance fee" or "419" scheme, the scammers sent spam e-mails asking for help in transferring a large sum of money out of a politically or economically troubled country, in exchange for a generous percentage.
Robert Meulenbroek, spokesman for the Amsterdam prosecutor's office, said the ring broken this week had reaped millions of euros (dollars). Recent victims included people from the United States, Japan, England, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
Nigeria has recently stepped up its efforts to eradicate the scam, which taints its image abroad. The Central Bank of Nigeria denies any connection to the scammers, and Nigerian agencies have been placing warning advertisements in international newspapers for years.
The scam is sometimes called a "419" fraud due to the Nigerian criminal code outlawing it.
England got it right, that Spammers must get your permission first. The U.S., Nooo, you have to replay back to every Spammer, unreal.
1-5-2004 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040105/ap_on_hi_te/spam_suit_1">Washington Man Sues Pennysylvania Telemarketer Firm for $600,000 Over Unsolicited E-Mails </a>
HOPWOOD, Pa. - A man from Washington state has accused a western Pennsylvania telemarketer of sending him hundreds of unsolicited e-mails and has sued the company under his state's anti-spam law.
Judge throws Anti-Spam Lawsuit out. Florida Computer Techs Free to Spam:
12-30-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031230/tc_nm/tech_aol_dc">AOL Anti-Spam Lawsuit Dismissed</a>
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by AOL against a group of Florida computer technicians that the leading Internet provider charged with helping deliver spam e-mails, lawyers for the technicians said on Tuesday.
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031216-4.html">12-16-2003 President Bush speech on Anti-Spam Law</a>
12-9-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=4&u=/ap/20031209/ap_on_hi_te/internet_spam">U.S. Congress OKs National Anti-Spam Bill </a>
To reply, or not to reply? The new legislation Congress approved to stem the flood of unwanted e-mails will require a fundamental change in ways that Internet users respond to overflowing inboxes.
As the deluge of unsolicited pitches offering prescription drugs and cheap loans worsened during the Internet's growth, experts have cautioned computer users against doing what comes naturally: Reply to unwanted e-mails to demand an end to them.
The reason? Unscrupulous spammers deem each such demand a verification that someone actually received their e-mails ? and promptly sent dozens more to the same address.
But the "can spam" legislation that Congress approved Monday requires unsolicited e-mails to include a mechanism so recipients could indicate they did not want future mass mailings. Computer users are being asked to ignore years of anti-spam training.
"It will require a change in behavior," acknowledged Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., one of the bill's sponsors.
Some critics said the bill didn't go far enough to discourage unwanted e-mails. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mails called the congressional effort "really disappointing." The group prefers a law requiring marketers to obtain someone's permission before sending them any e-mails. It said the alternative method of consumers asking marketers not to send them any more messages hasn't worked.
"What Congress is effectively doing is ignoring these laws that haven't worked everywhere else they've tried," said the group's spokesman, John Mozena. "This bill fails the most basic tests for anti-spam legislation; it doesn't tell anybody not to spam."
12-5-2003<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031205/tc_nm/tech_yahoo_dc">Yahoo Proposes New Internet Anti-Spam Structure</a>
Internet services company Yahoo Inc. on Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender.
11-19-2003 Congress thinks Taxing E-Mail will stop Spam
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4220626.html">http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4220626.html</a>
E-mail tax may help stop spam, Dayton says
Elizabeth Dunbar, Star Tribune Washington
Published November 19, 2003
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If Congress is going to stop unsolicited commercial
e-mail from swamping computer users, Sen. Mark Dayton says legislators
might need to consider "a minuscule tax" on e-mail. [...]
Slashdot thread:
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I missed when Italy was the first Country to adopt an Anti-Spam Law but today England has adopted an "Unlimited" Spam Law in an effort to highly discourage Spammers by hitting them where it hurts over and over. It will cost Spammers $8,000 when they are caught and they can be dragged in to Court over and over unlimited amounts of times.
This is a great first step in this battle against crap.
The article points out the biggest cuprit of the problem is in fact the U.S.
With $100,000 fines and 3 years in Jail, I'm sure there won't be any Italian Spammers.
Another indication of how the rest of the world is now on the forefront of Technology and progressing with the Internet & Computers in a responsible way while the U.S. continues to be a laughing stock, reckless and focused in completely wrong directions.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11-13-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031113/ap_on_hi_te/spam_s_new_frontiers_2">Spammers Now Clogging Blogs, Cell Phones </a>
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But now, commercial pitches are increasingly popping up in online chats, instant messages, cell phones with text messaging and even Web log comments.
Howard Rheingold, a futurist who predicts always-on communication will revolutionize public discourse, is worried that all these new forms of spam could freeze the revolution in its tracks.
There will be no great social transformation if cell phones are turnToday, most of the attention of lawmakers has been on e-mail spam, which is estimated to comprise nearly half of e-mail traffic. Attempts to write broader laws have not succeeded, and might whittle away at free speech.
"We ought to be legislating general concepts ? things like, you can't market to somebody who's asked you not to," said David Sorkin, a professor who studies spam laws at John Marshall Law School.
ed off, instant messenger programs shut down or blog comments disabled to halt the flow of offers for online porn or cheap drugs.
11-6-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031106/tc_afp/us_internet_spam_031106204340">US regulators target "pop-up spam" scheme using Windows loophole</a>
The FTC action targeted D Squared, claiming the company "engaged in an unfair practice by interfering with consumers' use of their computers, specifically by causing a stream of multiple, unwanted Windows Messenger Service pop-ups to appear on their computer screens."
<blockquote>Quote
Originally posted by: guyver01
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5089720.html">Missouri files spam suit under new law</a>
Missouri's attorney general filed lawsuits against two alleged junk e-mailers this week, the first cases brought under the state's new antispam law.
The lawsuits, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis, charge Phillip Nixon of Palm Beach, Fla., and proprietors of the Web site Fundetective.com, of Boca Raton, Fla., with violating the law.
"Spam is the unwanted cybersalesman with its foot in your e-mail door," Attorney General Jay Nixon said in a statement. "These lawsuits to enforce Missouri's new law are a way to close that door."
The antispam legislation, enacted Aug. 28, requires that all unsolicited commercial e-mail be labeled in the subject line with the tag "ADV," for "advertisement." Adult-related content must carry the tag "ADV:ADLT." The law also prohibits marketers from sending promotions to people who have requested to receive no further e-mail communications after one instance. Penalties are $5,000 for each violation, not to exceed $25,000 per day.
The suit against Phillip Nixon claims that he sent unlabeled commercial e-mail and violated requests for no further communications. Scott Holste, spokesman for the attorney general's office, said Phillip Nixon had sent at least five messages to an e-mail box on its network. The Fundetective.com suit alleges that that operation sent unlabeled spam.
Missouri is one of about 35 states with antispam laws and is part of a movement to use legal measures to crush spammers. California enacted antispam legislation last month with the stiffest penalties of all states. That law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, allows citizens and ISPs (Internet service providers) to seek civil damages of up to $1,000 per e-mail per customer and $1 million per mass mailing.
There is no federal law on the books as of yet, but Congress is seriously considering two antispam bills, the Anti-Spam Act--reintroduced this summer--and the Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act, both of which would make it illegal to send unsolicited bulk e-mail that does not include a way for recipients to exempt themselves from future mailings.[/quote]
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9-23-2003 Hard to believe but a State has gone out on a limb and joined the Anti-Spam fight, California. Gray Davis has nothing to lose so now he decides to Champion something for the people rather than Corporations for a change.
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_186_bill_20030911_enrolled.html">Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail</a>
Can cost a Spammer as much as $100,000 a day and up to 1 Million dollars per incident.
That ought to stop them as well as make a dent in the 37 billion dollar California budget.
Edit: 10-11-2003 Davis is gone, congrats Arnold. Hopefully Arnold will also champion such causes as the fight against Spam.
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<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030918/wr_nm/tech_internet_spam_dc_2">UK Cracks Down on Spammers with New Privacy Law</a>
Britain on Thursday became the second country in Europe to criminalize spam, that unwanted barrage of e-mail and mobile phone text messages that promise get-rich-quick schemes, cheap home loans and a better sex life.
The unsolicited messages, which industry groups say account for more than half of all e-mails sent, have become the scourge of Internet users everywhere.
Under the new UK law, spammers face a 5,000 pound ($8,057) fine if convicted in a magistrates court. The fine from a jury trial would be unlimited. Spammers would not face prison...
Italian lawmakers imposed tough new regulations to fine spammers up to 90,000 euros ($101,600) and impose a maximum prison term of three years.
Anti-spam groups cheered the Italian law, but acknowledged it likely would do little to stop the unwanted flow of messages. The biggest spammers are based in the United States and Asia.
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9-19-2003 <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030919/ap_on_hi_te/spam_ban&cid=562&ncid=716">Spammers Now Need Permission in Britain </a>
The Australian government announced even tougher plans to crack down on spam Thursday, proposing to fine those who send unsolicited messages up to A$1.1 million (US$726,000) a day
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