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Roughly 61,000 e-mails containing everything from mortgage offers to penis enlargement proposals—along with a few real e-mails—were intercepted Wednesday under a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences-wide spam filter that began testing last Monday...
...presumptive enough?to attack our country to rid it of the dreadful scourge of slavery. Without having been asked, America is inflicting its desires and aspirations upon others. The U.S. might be likened to a telemarketer, and before you know it, we may find ourselves being called Uncle Spam. Leonard Greenberg Sterling...
AVOID OFF-SHORING Have you received spam from Costa Rican off-track-betting facilities offering juicy rebates? Ignore it. These shops aren't regulated and can easily take you for a ride. "A novice should have his head examined if he bets with one of these places," says Richard Bomze, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association...
...what can we do to take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with...
More importantly, perhaps, the political powers that be are finally (slowly) committing to fighting spam, despite the lobbying power that its originators seem to possess. A new law that went into effect early this year has made certain forms of unwanted e-mail communication illegal—now all spam needs to be opt-out (there must be some way to let a would-be spammer know that you’d like no further communication from them) and certain guidelines have been set regarding the use of misleading subject lines. Some have called the bill inadequate, arguing that...