Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.

Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.

Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.

Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."

Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).

The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago.

Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam.

AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam.

Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails.

Alan Brown makes a short response to the news that ORBS is shutting down.