Spam

My boss forwards fluffy kitten e-mails! My boss forwards fluffy kitten e-mails!

Should someone inform the boss that these chain letters are bogus and scary? Should I send a link to Snopes.com?
By Cary Tennis Nov 13, 2007

  • How Microsoft is losing the war on spam

    Bill Gates said junk e-mail would be history by 2006. His prediction's being buried by an avalanche of Viagra ads and Rolex pitches -- and his company's policies are a big reason why.
    By Brian McWilliams January 19, 2005

  • Bush stops spam; blue states rejoice

    Also: Google closes its digital library doors, and Dennis Kucinich's blog rocks your world. Salon's technology and business predictions for 2005.
    By Farhad Manjoo and Katharine Mieszkowski January 3, 2005

  • Remove me!

    Do those unsubscribe links actually work, or are they just another spammer scam? A reporter goes undercover in the world of fake Rolexes to find the answer.
    By Brian McWilliams December 14, 2004

  • Spam, the Nazi hunter and Citizen Joe

    The fight against junk e-mail is never pretty, but what happens when a spam-fighter messes with the wrong party?
    By Brian McWilliams September 7, 2004

  • Too much of a good thing

    Forget spam -- our real conundrum is the overload of legitimate e-mail. But help is coming.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 16, 2004

  • Invasion of the spambots

    From blog spam to pornbots, new strains of computer programs aimed at pumping up Google page ranks just keep on coming.
    By Sam Williams June 8, 2004

  • The return of the Internet

    In 2003, Howard Dean scored big with the Web, while India took advantage of online communications to grab thousands of white-collar jobs from the West. The Net, it turns out, still matters.
    By Farhad Manjoo and Katharine Mieszkowski December 24, 2003

  • E-mail is broken

    Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 2, 2003

  • Meet the spam Nazi

    What does a former white-power activist do after being drummed out of the movement? He turns to peddling penis-enlargement pills.
    By Brian McWilliams July 29, 2003

  • Filter mojo

    The institutions struggling to rid the Internet of porn and spam may have found the one weapon that works: The Net itself.
    By Andrew Leonard June 24, 2003

  • When spam filters go bad

    Trying to block junk mail, my cable modem company installed a system that prevented me from getting my REAL mail -- and when I complained, insisted it was all for the good of the System.
    By Laura Miller June 19, 2003

  • A spam fighter's work is never done

    Suresh Ramasubramanian's job is to stop junk e-mail from ever getting to your in box. But for every spammer he blocks, a dozen more rise up.
    By Michelle Delio March 27, 2003

  • Iraq still online

    The U.S. could unplug Iraq from the Net with ease. So why hasn't it?
    By Brian McWilliams March 21, 2003

  • They die, you buy

    Candidate for the most repulsive spam of all time? An ad for a boobs and bombs T-shirt celebrating the destruction of Baghdad.
    By Andrew Leonard March 21, 2003

  • Political spam: Get used to it

    An outraged constituent is suing Elizabeth Dole's campaign for sending junk e-mail. Is spam from politicians a crime -- or a vital First Amendment right?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 20, 2002

  • The bot who loved me

    Are those secret-admirer e-mails real -- or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 7, 2002

  • Spam vs. spam

    The only way to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail may be to harness a million eyeballs and an army of open-source hackers.
    By Andrew Leonard June 24, 2002

  • Nissan vs. Nissan

    Is a North Carolina businessman a cybersquatter unfairly pirating the car maker's brand name, or something even worse: A spammer of journalists?
    By Andrew Leonard June 3, 2002

  • The joy of junk mail

    Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love spam.
    By Mark Griffith November 14, 2001

  • The spam spoils of war

    Bin Laden toilet paper! Cipro e-mail! In the great American tradition, an army of entrepreneurs is trying to make hay on horror.
    By Damien Cave October 17, 2001
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