Computer Cops used to reside with C I Host on a dedicated server and the service we received was spotty at best. In fact we tried to terminate our account with them but C I Host didn't believe in customer satisfaction. On April 20, 2004 I received an email from "C I Host, Sales" [email protected] with subject: "C I Host Wants You Back!" Well, you can imagine my reply. Leaving out a few choice words, my express request to be removed from the SPAM list was included:

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Furthermore, please remove me immediately from any future SPAM mailings or I will have to report CI Host as a SPAM site.

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Lo-and-behold the SPAM monger got me again yesterday, June 3, 2004 with the same subject and From address. And yes, I checked the headers, they came straight from CIHost servers.

May 28, 2004
By TechWeb News

Maryland and Florida have enacted anti-spam legislation as states--disheartened by the ineffectiveness of the federal CAN-SPAM Act--are increasingly moving to take anti-spam measures into their own hands.

By The Associated Press

A man who sent 850 million junk e-mails through accounts he opened with stolen identities was sentenced to up to seven years in prison on Thursday.

scupper writes "The UK Register reported today that MessageLabs, a spam filtering company, has released it's April 2004 world spam traffic stats revealing more than two thirds (67.6 per cent) of the 840 million emails scanned were identified as spam."

WeekEnd Feature:
Cue me a Reggae beat!

by Ian Thompson, CCSP Staff Editor
May 22, 2004

“We're spamming
I wanna spam it with you,
We're spamming, spamming
And I hope you like spamming too

”Ain't no rules, ain't no vow, we can do it anyhow
I and I will see you through,
'Cos every day we pay the price with a little sacrifice
Spamming ‘cos the spam gets through.”
Etc…

Thus spake the Lord, and verily all the spammers of the world did listen and obey - especially the bit about no rules. Even though Bob never meant it this way…

Blast writes "Information on the Australian Spam Act 2003
http://www.caube.org.au/spamact.htm

The Spam Act 2003 is in force as of 10th April 2004. As of that date it is illegal to send even one unsolicited commercial email that meets any one of the categories below. That is, the message is sent:
"

Anonymous writes "The study is available for download at www.vircom.com/Products/Modus3/Whitepapers.asp


Vircom's shocking new study, Why Spammers Spam, steps into the underground world of spammers and features revealing interviews with 3 young Americans who make a business out of flooding your e-mail inbox.
"

Anonymous writes "With recent CAN-SPAM and other international anti-spam legislation attempts, millions of business mailboxes are wide open for spammers to attack

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Montreal, March 1, 2004 - Montreal-based Vircom, developer of Modus secure messaging solutions, today announced it has observed a 25% increase in the amount of business-to-business unsolicited e-mails since the beginning of the year. "

Spam Tide May Be Turning
By Cameron Sturdevant
March 1, 2004

Major announcements at the RSA Conference here last week—in addition to recent anti-spam technology advances—mark the beginning of the end of spam as we know it.

Spam Slayer: Spam Weapons of Tomorrow
Internet firms turn to technology, not law, to fight the avalanche of spam.
Tom Spring,
PC World
Monday, March 01, 2004

Tip of the Month

Keep Your Numbers Private. Think twice before submitting your mobile phone number to a contest or sweepstakes. Marketing firms are now targeting mobile phones with text-messaging advertisements. By dangling discounts and prizes, firms hope you'll give them your cell phone number so they can spam you there as well. The fine print in Sweepstakes Online's marketing message says it will send event reminder messages, coupons, and other incentives. That's spam!