Internetweek recently ran a survey asking companies if they ever use Unsolicited Commercial Email to market their business. The results were astounding assuming the respondents represent real, legitimate businesses! (How many spammers read Internetweek?) "In fact, one in 25 of our survey's respondents

I received an email the other day from a work at home mom who recently started a small publishing company. She wanted to start selling advertising to other WAHM businesses but was concerned about bulk emailing them... with good reason. Spam is the four-letter word that most offends those of us working

For a law to take effect on the U.S. federal level, both the House and the Senate must pass the bill and then the President of the United States must sign the bill into law. Last year we almost got a SPAM law on the books when House legislators approved their version of the SPAM bill, H. R. 3113, the

If you are distributing material to an opt-in email list, you need to know about a fledgling, grassroots organization called e-Crucible. The organization is committed to "opposing by any ethical, political, and legal means available the vigilante activities of "anti-Spam" fanatics and the unfair

A common way for spammers to create their vast lists of email addresses is to cull web pages for "mailto:" tags. There are many different programs, available for small to huge costs, which will do this automatically, easily and efficiently. I monitor my web site log files on a regular basis, and