Like it or not, email is still the best way to reach a mass online audience--and even community sites and online services are willing to use it. [CNET]

Wanted: One spammer. Reward offered. A San Diego software engineer whose had it with people using his domain name "live.net" to send out spam is offering a $100 reward to anyone who can deliver the offending parties--or at least their names--to him. [...

The war on unsolicited email suffered a setback this week as a spam-blocking site was bounced off the Web. [News.com]

Spammers claim legitimacy with disclaimers that imply their mass emailings comply with the Consumer Antislamming Act. [CNET]

A House Commerce subcommittee today approved by voice vote the Consumer Antislamming Act, containing controversial provisions aimed at protecting Net users from junk email that antispammers say actually legitimize spam. [CNET]

Network Solutions threatens to sue an antispam group if it adds them to a spam blacklist. [CNET]

Yahoo blocks access to sites advertised in spam sent to its users. [CNET]

AT&T acknowledged Thursday that it had violated its own spam policy by providing Web-hosting services to a purported sender of unsolicited commercial email. [CNET.com]

The latest test version of Microsoft's MSN Explorer is setting off sparks over a feature that converts MSN email accounts to Hotmail, as well as over an accompanying spam-like missive that encourages customers to send an advertisement-laden email to f...

Troubled Internet service provider PSINet acknowledged providing access to a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email, bolstering critics' claims that some of the world's largest ISPs knowingly do business with spammers in violation of stated anti-...