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
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The case illustrates a modern maxim: Spam pays.
By Farhad Manjoo
October 15, 2007
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A spate of e-mail etiquette guides and productivity manuals commands us to clear out our e-mail. Don't we all have better things to do?
By Scott Rosenberg
July 13, 2007
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There really is a way to make money off those annoying, relentless e-mails about "hot stocks."
By Alex Koppelman
February 1, 2007
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Also: that Internet thing? Still popular in China
By Andrew Leonard
January 23, 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Forget spam -- our real conundrum is the overload of legitimate e-mail. But help is coming.
By Farhad Manjoo
July 16, 2004
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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
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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
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Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
October 2, 2003
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The U.S. could unplug Iraq from the Net with ease. So why hasn't it?
By Brian McWilliams
March 21, 2003
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love spam.
By Mark Griffith
November 14, 2001
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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