Tag Archives: CAN-SPAM Act

Just about every company is all too aware of the problems that spam can lead to. This has prompted a majority of IT departments to employ some sort of anti-spam, or spam filtering, solution to assist in keeping the inboxes …

Spam; one of the few four letter words that is still considered unacceptable anywhere. Whether it arrives in the form of a junk email advertising for prescription drugs or a shared post in Google+, spam is one of the most …

Proud of his spamming techniques, Sanford “Spamford” Wallace proclaimed himself the Spam King. This arrogance about his business practices probably won’t win him any friends as he faces 11 new counts – six for electronic mail fraud, three for intentional …

As you may expect, changing social norms and technology means that what’s considered as proper email etiquette changes from time to time.  In recognition of this, I would like to highlight a number of current tips for better email etiquette …

We tend to look at mythology in terms of fascinating stories from ancient times that told stories of heroes, deities and maidens. While we pass classical mythology off as literature, we often forget that long ago, these stories were believed …

Major Internet Service Providers in the United States, including Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T, Cablevison Systems, and Comcast, have agreed upon a plan, backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.) The plan …

Robert Soloway, the spammer who made $20,000 a day back in the 1990s and was forced to pay $17 million in civil judgments, made it back into the news cycle when he was recently quoted as saying  that in current …

Amidst the occasional report that spam is no longer a problem, CTOs and IT managers could be misled into believing that the eradication of spam is well into its terminal phase, or at least form an opinion that it is …

The Citizen Media Law Project has posted an interesting article about a recent court decision that Facebook postings come under the definition of “commercial email messages”, thus making them subject to compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act. The decision came in response …

The Russian spammer who is allegedy the mastermind behind the massive Mega-D botnet is facing 17 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Oleg Nikolayenko, who lives near Moscow, was arrested at a car show in Las Vegas last November and …