How to sue a British spammer | The Register Chartered engineer Nigel Roberts became the first person to win a court judgment over a company's breach of the UK's anti-spam law late last year. His success received widespread media coverage—and now he's encouraging others to do the same.
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Vodafone Mail customers have a combined Inbox facility for e-mail, faxes, and voice mail messages. The usefulness of this facility was limited—until the introduction of e-mail filters—by the inability to avoid spam messages. Sure, you could log in via webmail to view faxes and play back voice mail, but at the expense and irritation of a handful of spam! E-mail filtering allows you to receive those faxes using your usual e-mail client without having to download all the spam as well...
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The disposable e-mail address: it's often the simple ideas that work best...
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Did you get an unexpected e-mail that appeared to be from bioneural.net, but contained a virus or a message about following a link to read the full message? You've just been spammed via a trick called "spoofing"! Can PGP or S/MIME help you separate the wheat from the chaff?
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Complain now, complain loudly...
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Getting spam e-mail from a company called "ExtraHit" or "GAINtrafficFAST"? These scam artists use unethical tactics and deserve to be named-and-shamed.
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