The seven werpetrators agreed to settle charges that they were spamming consumers with deceptive chain letters. Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

Editorial. One man decides to give up on spam filtering.

Opt-In Marketing Services challenges antispam efforts, organizations in court.

Web-hosting company won its battle against an antispam activist, but the war is far from over.

In a victory to thrill anyone annoyed by the "spam" that clogs e-mail accounts, an appellate court has upheld the constitutionality of California's tough 1998 law regulating unwanted commercial messages.

Fight is on to keep unwanted text ads off cell phones.

Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet.

FTC goes after spam purveyors who peddle dubious schemes.

Unsolicited e-mail, also known as "spam, " would become a thing of the past under a bill introduced by Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland.

According to the latest monthly data from Brightmail the rate of unique spam attacks measured by the company's network of decoy addresses has increased more than five-fold during the past year -- from less than a million in June 2001 to more than 4.8 ...