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...rape by pedophiles who found their victims in a range of chat rooms. As of next month, MSN aims to crush abuse of this real-time message exchange by closing it down in large parts of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, halting the spread of pornographic spam and the online "grooming" of youngsters by pedophiles. "Free, unmoderated chat is unsafe," says Sutton. "We took the view that closing it down was the best way to deal with it." Child-protection groups applauded the move. "If you conclude - as Microsoft has done - that you've provided...
...SpamAssassin filter identifies a lot of [Sobig e-mails], but students still have to check their spam folders,” Steen said. “The e-mails add up very quickly, and they might fill the inbox and not allow in any more mail...
...National Do Not Call Registry--covers unsolicited cell-phone traffic, with a $500 fine for abusers. Says the FCC's Dan Rumelt: "Consumers should file complaints with us." In addition, consumer advocates and the FCC recommend that you ask your cell-phone service how it deals with text-message spam under your plan. --By Avery Holton
Finally, there's a community project that attacks spam the way Hollywood used to attack suspected communists: with a blacklist. For $4.99 a month, SpamNet www.cloudmark.com checks your incoming mail against its own ever expanding database. The service's 475,000-plus members contribute by "voting" on what's spam and what isn't, using the BLOCK and UNBLOCK buttons that the SpamNet program adds to your Outlook task bar. Enough votes from individual members and a message is blocked for all. With thousands of reports coming in every second, it can be pretty effective...
...some spam gets through--as some inevitably will--you can always go back to filtering it the old-fashioned way: by hitting the delete key. --By Maryanne Murray Buechner