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The ORBS blacklist, a controversial tool for stopping unsolicited e-mail, is suddenly inaccessible.
By Damien Cave
June 8, 2001
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Is an addictive new trivia game spreading via e-mail innocent fun or state-of-the-art marketing spam?
By Damien Cave
October 9, 2000
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At a committee hearing on online privacy, the senator asks me some tough questions and doesn't like what he hears.
By Simson Garfinkel
October 6, 2000
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"Is Seymour Butts there?" A Web site lets you send automated voice messages to any phone number.
By Damien Cave
August 15, 2000
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Recipes for dealing with spam Plus: Who took the surprise out of the Waco raid? Hemlock Society founder weighs in on physician-assisted suicide.
April 25, 2000
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Steamy sex spam isn't the half of it. Legitimate businesses threaten our e-mail system with their misguided marketing efforts.
By Simson Garfinkel
April 21, 2000
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There are a few ways to evade spammers, but most will limit your reception of other mail too.
By Simson Garfinkel
April 21, 2000
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While you're busy bickering about what happens to personal data online, the post office is selling your new home address to junk mailers.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 20, 2000
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At least 18 states have enacted or are working on legislation that would impose stiff penalties on commercial e-mailers who engage in unsavory tactics.
By Damien Cave
April 19, 2000
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ISPs spend millions annually fighting spam; a federal law headed for the House promises scant relief.
By Damien Cave
April 19, 2000
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In which we offer up sacrificial e-mail addresses and are spurned by the bulk e-mailing gods.
By Lydia Lee
April 18, 2000
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Not only does it clutter up your in box, but even when you say yes, you'd like to make $20,000 in your spare time, nobody answers.
By Janelle Brown
April 18, 2000
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Bulk commercial e-mail: Where does it come from? Where is it going? What can you do to stop it? A Salon Technology special report.
April 17, 2000
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If companies served up e-mail right, consumers would beg for it, says Hans Peter Brøndmo, founder of Post Communications.
By Lydia Lee
April 17, 2000
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How does 24/7 Media CEO David Moore target ads without raising the ire of privacy activists? He asks permission.
By Lydia Lee
March 6, 2000
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As online journalism erodes the long-standing wall between editors and business folks, my in box is filling with faux friendly e-mail.
By Geoff Edgers
February 2, 2000
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How do you know your new e-mail pen pal isn't an intelligent agent?
By Simson Garfinkel
January 25, 2000
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The cyber-scourge of families everywhere.
By Phaedra Hise
December 20, 1999
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On freebie sites you can't always get what you want, but if you try real hard you just might get something free.
By Lydia Lee
December 17, 1999
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For just $2.99 a minute you too can learn how to score with bad party girls from the privacy of your own home!
By Harmon Leon
December 10, 1999
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Horowitz's "revisionist" understanding of race relations
Plus: The politics and art of Rage Against the Machine; telling AOL what to do with its spam-fest.
Letters to the Editor
November 30, 1999
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Is it time for a female vice president? Plus: Get that spam out of my mailbox; "Millionaire" contestant gives Philbin the thumbs-up.
Letters to the Editor
November 22, 1999
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Forward, march! Join the dance of the eternally circulating e-mail.
By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
November 20, 1999
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A fight over opt-in marketing has anti-spam activists crying foul.
By Deborah Scoblionkov
November 12, 1999
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Sunil Paul, CEO of Brightmail, explains what it takes to be a two-time winner in the Internet economy.
By Andrew Leonard
November 1, 1999
A spam cop goes AWOL
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