Getting people to say yes to marketing e-mails, and then getting them the messages that are most likely to make them buy, is a thriving industry of its own. [E-Commerce Times]

EBay is either a scheming marketing company or an innocent victim of mass paranoia launched by a well-intentioned e-mail it sent to its users. [Wired]

Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi remains barred from targeting Intel employees with bulk e-mail.

Attention, spamees: Don't take your hand off the delete key. Indications are that plenty more spam is on its way.

A small claims court judge in Bellevue, Washington, awarded Bennett Haselton $2, 000 for getting spam.

Before the rubble had even stopped smoking from Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C., spammers were trying to capitalize on the tragedy.