SPAM robertshaw.info references to dealing with unsolicited email.  22 April 2003 Internet is losing ground in battle against SPAM Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam [New York Times: Technology]  9:52:32 AM    Google It!      16 April 2003 Australian Government versus SPAM The Australian National Office for the Information Economy has released a report containing a series of recommendation for addressing the growing problem of SPAM (press release here). Nice to see there is also recognition of the need for multilateral cooperation: "Australia should work with the OECD, APEC and other relevant multilateral bodies."  5:13:18 PM    Google It!      11 April 2003 War on SPAM Post on VentureBlog about the war on SPAM. "On the Spam blocking side, there is an undeniable need for services like Postini, MailFrontier, BrightMail and many other companies."  9:33:45 AM    Google It!      06 March 2003 AOL's ramped-up antispam program stops 1 billion spams daily A Computerworld article says "Two weeks after beefing up its antispam efforts on behalf of its members, America Online Inc. said today that it has blocked as many as 1 billion spam e-mails in a single day, up from the average 780 million spam messages a day it was blocking in mid-February."  11:03:11 AM    Google It!      03 March 2003 Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces Net Gurus Rally Anti-Spam Forces. The Internet Research Task Force forms a new offshoot whose sole goal is to document the magnitude of the junk e-mail problem -- and do what it takes to fix it. By Justin Jaffe. [Wired News]  12:24:45 PM    Google It!      11 February 2003 US FTC to Hold Three Day Public Spam Workshop The [US] Federal Trade Commission will host a three-day "Spam Forum" Wednesday, April 30 through Friday, May 2, [2003] to address the proliferation of unsolicited commercial e-mail and to explore the technical, legal, and financial issues associated with it.  11:58:21 AM    Google It!      24 January 2003 Korea Tightens SPAM Regulations The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication announced on January 20, 2003, that it will adopt a set of measure to tighten regulations on those who send unsolicted emails or SPAM.  1:19:38 PM    Google It!

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