The war on spam moved into high gear this week. First, those improbable allies AOL, MSN and Yahoo! have joined together to fight spam.
In the U.S. Congress, two bills are being introduced, both targeting spam from very different angles. The first bill will be introduced by Senator Charles Schumer, and will establish a …
According to META Group, it is. In a survey of 387 worldwide corporate executives, 80 percent said they see e-mail as a more valuable communications method than the telephone, and 74 percent said they would have more difficulty if they lost e-mail access for five days than if they lost phone access. The…
Oklahoma’s governor signed an anti-spam law this week, making it illegal “to put false or misleading information in the subject line or to use a third party’s Internet address or domain name without their consent for the purpose of making it look like the e-mail came from a third party.”
Even with all the new tools and legislation to fight unwanted junk e-mail, it’s clear we’re losing the battle against spam.
Back in August I mentioned a new anti-spam tool called Habeas. This utility places a trademarked haiku poem into an e-mail header, which allows the e-mail to pass through spam filters unmolested. This week, Habeas filed suit against five entities that allegedly used the trademarked poem without permission. CNet has more on the lawsuits.…
Yesterday I mentioned MailBlocks, a service that promises to rid your Inbox of spam. However, according to this article from LawMeme, MailBlocks requires you to “opt in” to the Service by providing certain personal information during the registration process — if you don’t opt in, you can’t use the service. This information is then…
A new start-up company wants to permanently end spam, and has a new program called MailBlocks. When the software intercepts an e-mail from an unknown source, it sends an e-mail to the sender with an image and a form to fill out. When the sender views the image and fills out the form (proving…
PC World asks the question, why are you getting so much spam?. The article highlights a study from the Center for Democracy and Technology, and provides some good (if basic) recommendations on reducing the flood of spam. I’ll be posting more on this in the next few weeks.
Another helpful article from Law.com discusses the ethical obligations inherent when lawyers practice law by e-mail. Follow these suggestions!
I use MS Outlook on a daily basis, and I’m pretty satisfied with the way it works — I’m especially looking forward to the new version of Outlook currently being developed. But not everybody feels the same way, and several software companies have developed e-mail clients they hope will lure you away from Outlook.
