A US law firm has become the hero of the common people for its decision to take on the spam merchants who wage guerrilla warfare on our e-mail inboxes, offering everything from sex to cars and easy money to psychic readings.

According to US-based net think-tank the Nielsen Norman Group, people can have highly emotional reactions to e-mail newsletters.

Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam.

A lawsuit against spam on the Internet is part of a larger effort to control the proliferation of unsolicited e-mail.

Americans are discovering that the broad effort to fight spam can backfire.

An anti-spam group has put Yahoo's storefronts on its list of suspected junk e-mailers, snarling attempts by some customers to access the storefronts.

A new anti-spam service launched with much fanfare this week is facing some technical hurdles out of the gate and frustration from the community it relies on to fight junk mail.

A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail operation, AOL said Monday.

Spam may be an unwanted staple in your in-box, but don't expect lawmakers to serve up new regulations anytime soon.

A coalition of consumer groups plans to ask the federal government to rescue people from the deluge of unwanted commercial mail that clogs their inboxes and sucks up their time.