Word: spam
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...student composes long messages in an attempt to elicit an equally long response and sends them to nearly everyone in his address book. In the worst case scenarios, the student may begin to read his or her spam or e-mail the parents...
...Year In Spam The U.S.'s year-old CAN-SPAM laws, meant to curb unsolicited e-mail, have had little impact, according to antispam company MX Logic, which estimates that 77% of all e-mail is spam. Feedback by users of America Online show that 2003's favorite spam subjects, Oprah Winfrey, teens and Viagra, were overtaken in 2004 by ID-theft scams, mortgage deals and substitutes for the withdrawn arthritis painkiller Vioxx...
...backlash against ads in feeds," says Eric Peterson, an analyst for Jupiter Research, because they might alienate users by destroying the flow of clutter-free information. The danger, RSS proponents realize, is that RSS ads could become just like Web pop-ups or e-mail ads - another form of spam. But Peterson doubts whether either subscription or advertising can sustain stand-alone RSS firms. Acquisition, he suggests, might be the best business strategy. "I think there's more potential for larger companies to buy these smaller RSS services," he says...
...Somewhere along the line, your e-mail In box started to look like your real mailbox-full of unwanted ads and "free" offers that somehow aren't. New spam-filtering software may have helped cut back on the lewdness, but those programs sometimes drop good friends in the junk folder. DigiPortal's ChoiceMail ($40 at digiportal.com; a scaled-down free version is also available) gets around that problem by checking IDs at the door to your In box. If the message is from someone already in your address book, the mail goes through, but if it's from an unknown...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Somewhere along the line, your e-mail In box started to look like your real mailbox - full of unwanted ads and "free" offers that somehow aren't. New spam-filtering software may have helped cut back on the lewdness, but those programs sometimes drop good friends in the junk folder. DigiPortal's ChoiceMail ($40 at digiportal.com; a scaled-down free version is also available) gets around that problem by checking IDs at the door to your...