The Chickenboners and the Lumber Cartel are waging a war over your email box. [Wired]

Hundreds of unsuspecting AT&T wireless subscribers in April protested when spam trickled from their PCs to cellular phones. [Wired]

Report on European consumer watchdog groups with no spam policies. [The Register]

Mail Abuse Prevention System lists Exactis mail servers in Realtime Blackhole List ; Exactis files lawsuit. [MAPS press release]

Ask Hotmail users about their email accounts and most likely they will gripe how impossible it is to eliminate spam. [Wired]

A group of large email marketing companies proposed a detailed set of privacy standards Monday, hoping the measures will amount to a sort of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" for Internet direct advertisers. [Wired]

A domain name registrar has filed suit against a firm it claims illegally used its customer contact information in an aggressive marketing campaign of unsolicited email and phone calls. [Wired]

A Colorado legislative committee has passed a bill that would require spammers to tag unsolicited email with a special subject line. [Wired]

As the tightest presidential campaign in 40 years enters its final weeks, both the Democratic and Republican national committees are using any and all means to drum up support -- including mass email campaigns. [Wired]

H.R. 3113, which would fine spammers $500 for each piece of unsolicited junk email they send, would have passed unanimously were it not for the representative known throughout the House as "Dr. No." [Wired]

Polling giant claims ISPs have been duped into blocking millions of its e-mails in an anti-spam scam cooked up by a rival. [ZDNet]

Do marketers have the right to flood the e-mail boxes of unsuspecting Internet users with unwanted e-mail, otherwise known as spam? One Washington state judge has effectively said yes -- and has sparked an instant debate about the constitutionality of laws that limit the use of spam. [E-Commerce Times]

Blacklists, lawsuits, hate sites. Bulk e-mail is never a dull business. [Forbes]

A survey released this week by Forrester Research, Inc. reports that e-tailers are now using electronic mail as a major means of generating repeat business from customers. [E-Commerce Times]

An influential body of data protection experts could be about to recommend that Europe bans spam. [The Register]