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TECHNOLOGY: Meet the cast of Sims 2; a friendlier spam filter...
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...
CHARGED. JASON SMATHERS, 24, former America Online software engineer, and SEAN DUNAWAY, 21, e-mail marketer; with conspiracy, for allegedly stealing and selling the entire list of 92 million AOL user names for purposes of spam; in New York City. Prosecutors say Smathers used another employee's identification code to access the master list of subscriber e-mails and sold it for at least $100,000 to Dunaway, who is accused of using it to promote his Internet gambling site...
...summer progresses the computing staff will be testing a number of other alternatives to the spam problem, Davis said, after which a final decision will be made on whether or not to run the program during term-time...
...this point in time we’re still in the test phase and evaluating a number of different solutions,” Davis said. So far people are reporting receiving between 50 and 90 percent less spam, he added...