Word: spam
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These days the wiry 42-year-old A.G. is fast developing a national reputation as a giant slayer. He has led a highly visible campaign against bogus stock advice and is currently going after purveyors of Internet spam. With his knack for tapping into hot-button issues, the question now is not if but when he will run for Governor. "You in New York are so blessed to have an attorney general who just showed what it was like to be a Democrat," James Carville, Bill Clinton's old political guru, gushed in his keynote address to a party convention...
...hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...STEP 9: LET YOUR SOFTWARE DO THE WORK. The more you filter out spam and divert e-mail lists to their own folders, the more manageable your in box becomes...
...candidates for E.U. membership. A breach too far Britain's Inland Revenue service suspended its online tax filing system after security breaches allowed users to view other people's information. The problems put a serious dent in plans to make online filing for employers mandatory by 2010. War on spam Fresh from his battle with Merrill Lynch, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing companies that send spam, or unsolicited junk e-mail. Going even further in this latest global conflict, the E.U.'s new privacy law bans all firms from sending spam. BOTTOM LINES...
...birds have to be fed, housed and trained not to overfly important local politicians?all of which cost a cash-strapped government $114,500 a year. Nevertheless, some of their less-advanced attributes will surely be missed: pigeons rarely crash, can't forward annoying knock-knock jokes, don't spam you with unwanted junk mail and never carry viruses. Well, not usually...