Louise Knapp's article about collectors of the discs.

Pop star Madonna, irked when a man paid $20, 000 for the rights to the domain Madonna.com and turned it into a porn site, filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization's domain dispute arbitrators. By Craig Bicknell.

Microsoft has fixed a serious vulnerability in its Hotmail email program that tricks users into sending their usernames and passwords to an outside email address. By Michael Stutz.

Andy Patrizio writes about the launch of WetBrain.com and the technology they built using Open Directory Project data.

The Internet Research Task Force, the closest thing the Internet has to a governing body for all matters technical, inaugurated the Anti-Spam Research Group this week to develop "a taxonomy of the (spam) problem and the proposed solutions."

Article discusses the Netscape purchase of NewHoo and the reaction from volunteer editors.

Netscape purchases NewHoo and renames the service Netscape Open Directory.

When Ken Pugh sued the Elizabeth Dole for Senate campaign last month for sending him spam, it wasn't money that motivated him.

A new great wall is being built, this time across the Internet. Constructed by frustrated systems administrators and intended only to stop spam, the wall could eventually cut off much of the e-mail communications between the East and the West.

Attention, spamees: Don't take your hand off the delete key. Indications are that plenty more spam is on its way.