Madonna wins the right to use the web site address madonna.com, which was being used as a pornography site.

"A man who paid $1, 000 for the sex.com domain name wins $65m after an online pornographer is found guilty of hijacking the site." [BBC]

Details of how to read other people's messages have been posted on a website run by a group called Root Core and it has quickly spread to other sites and newsgroups.

Article detailing MySpace's $234m damages win from spammers under the US CAN Spam law, but explaining how they have little chance of getting much, if any, of the cash.

Online marketing - sometimes called spamming - is trying to clean up its act - so don't mention the S word. [BBC News]

Consumers across Europe who have been plagued by junk e-mails and phone messages are being told that new laws are on the way to control them.

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

Unsolicited e-mail is becoming a problem for users and internet service providers.

Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch, state attorney general Elliot Spitzer sues MonsterHut.com for sending millions of 'spam' e-mail adverts.

The Nigerian authorities declare war on the growing of number of fraudsters who use cyber cafes to send out phoney e-mails.