<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Spam</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/specials/spam?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><description>Spam</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Loudoun Judge Gives Spammer 9-Year Prison Term]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38788-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38788-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Loudoun County judge yesterday sentenced the first person convicted of felony spam charges in the nation to nine years in prison but allowed him to remain free on bond during his appeal.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Gets Nine-Year Sentence For Spamming]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37205-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37205-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Loudoun County judge today sentenced the first person convicted of felony spam charges in the nation to nine years in prison but allowed him to remain free on bond during his appeal.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman's Spam Conviction Thrown Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64551-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64551-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Virginia judge yesterday dismissed a North Carolina woman's conviction on felony spamming charges, saying there was insufficient evidence that she flooded tens of thousands of America Online e-mail accounts with unsolicited bulk advertisements.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spammers Seeking Out IM Users, Survey Shows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45011-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45011-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Seventeen million Americans who use services like America Online's Instant Messenger and Microsoft's MSN Messenger have received unsolicited commercial messages through the services at least once, according to a survey released Tuesday. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft, Pfizer Join to Battle Online Drugstores]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12618-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12618-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Politics, it seems, is not the only thing that spawns unusual couples. E-mail spam is having a similar effect. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Jonathan Krim</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E-Mail-Address Thief Pleads Guilty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A former America Online Inc. software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.<BR> <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Associated Press</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Larry Neumeister</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spammers' New Strategy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61901-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61901-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An advanced spamming technique could push the volume of unwanted e-mail to new heights in coming months, straining the integrity of the online communication system, according to several top experts.<BR> <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verizon's Spam Policy Criticized]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19567-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19567-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some of Verizon's 3 million high-speed Internet customers say by cracking down on e-mail spam, the company is bungling the job and hurting their livelihoods.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Year After Legislation, Spam Still Widespread]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46037-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46037-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail produced mixed results after a year on the books, inspiring some Internet service providers to take legal action against spammers but failing to stop the overall proliferation of the unwanted online messages.]]></description><author> David McGuire</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Year-Old Spam Law Failing to Halt Flood]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44124-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44124-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The nation's first law aimed at curtailing junk e-mail earned a mixed report card after a year on the books as few spammers faced legal action and recent surveys showed that spam makes up an even larger proportion of online messages. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spam Lowers Its Appeal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35677-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35677-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[AOL released its second annual top 10 spam terms Wednesday, listing the subject lines of the most popular junk e-mails. The Dulles-based company said the number of spams sent to users  was down from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 1.2 billion this year. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Frank Ahrens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AOL Reports Decline in Spam in the Past Year]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30433-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30433-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[America Online said Monday that it has seen a substantial decline in unsolicited e-mails this year, though some anti-spam experts said the company may be the only Internet provider experiencing such a drop-off. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Mike Musgrove</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Rejects Guilty Plea In Spam Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18153-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18153-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal judge declined to accept a guilty plea Tuesday from a former software engineer at America Online Inc. who had been accused of stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses of subscribers for use in an Internet marketing scheme. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Robert O'Harrow Jr.</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Faults Md. Anti-Spam Statute]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A274-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A274-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Montgomery County judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate business transactions beyond the state's borders.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> David Snyder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft, AOL Resume Anti-Spam Effort]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62443-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62443-2004Oct25.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[America Online Inc. said yesterday it is once again supporting a Microsoft Corp. plan to combat unwanted bulk e-mail by verifying senders of messages.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E-Mail Authentication Will Not Stop Spammers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41460-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41460-2004Nov10.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For consumers and businesses increasingly shaken by the growing onslaught of unwanted e-mail and computer viruses, any hope for quick relief was dashed Wednesday during a government-hosted gathering of technology experts.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B> -The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E-Mail Firms Seek Spam Solution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35958-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35958-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Representatives from America's largest e-mail companies will meet in Washington today and Wednesday to look for a way to reduce the amount of "spam" clogging the nation's e-mail accounts, but experts said a concrete solution remains months or even years away. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft E-Mail Looks Like Spam to Some]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26555-2004Nov4.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26555-2004Nov4.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For a year, Microsoft Corp. has extolled the virtues of the Can-Spam Act, which Congress passed in late 2003 to crack down on purveyors of unwanted bulk e-mail.  But some think the software giant is engaged in its own spamming.<BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury Finds 2 Guilty of Felony Spam]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23622-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23622-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two North Carolina residents Wednesday became the first people in the nation to be convicted on felony spamming charges after a Loudoun County jury found that they flooded tens of thousands of America Online e-mail accounts with unsolicited e-mail, prosecutors said. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political Spam Pervades Personal Computers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18746-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18746-2004Nov2.html?nav=rss_technology/specials/spam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:26:14 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Junk e-mail might be the Internet's most annoying by-product, but several 21st-century political operatives say America is developing a taste for the kind of spam that advertises candidates rather than "herbal supplements." <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>]]></description><author>TechNews.com</author></item></channel></rss>