Spam costs Net users a whopping E10 billion ($9.33 billion) a year, according to the European Commission. [The Register]

MSN has signed up with Brightmail to stop its email users getting spammed. The ISP will offer its five million email users in the US the option of Brightmail's Anti-Spam Solution. [The Register]

Californians Michael Persaud, 24, of San Diego and Frank Kriticos, 25, of Santee will answer felony criminal charges of spamming and so earn the distinction of being the first people so charged in that state, according to a story in the local Union Tr...

Lobbyists for the European Internet industry believe their campaign for a ban on spam is gaining momentum. [The Register]

The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago.

Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam.

AOL has won $7m in damages after it claimed its punters had been bombarded with porn spam.

Heavy-handed anti-spam filtering can frequently lead to the loss of legitimate emails.

Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.

Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.