Last week, Reps. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) and Gene Green (D-Texas) reintroduced a bill they claimed "empowers consumers and their ISP with the ability to protect both their privacy and their resources" by restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail. [Wired]

ISPs are battling rogue spammers lurking in the back alleys and hidden corners of their networks. As the fighting heats up, more and more legitimate e-mail is getting blocked along with the junk. [Wired]

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

A European committee has blocked plans to outlaw unsolicited commercial email dealing a major blow to anti-spam supporters. [The Register]

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]

The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam. [The Register]

Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. [CNET.com]

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

Two Los Angeles men are to go to jail for their part in a bulk email scam which duped 12,000 people and severely impacted the operations of several large US ISPs. [The Register]

Bennett Haselton, the Webmaster for anti-Internet censorship Web site Peacefire.org, is the latest in a string of Washington residents to emerge victorious in small claims court by invoking the state?s new law against unsolicited bulk e-mail.

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

Some say the only way to stop the spread of e-mail Spam is to charge e-mail users a fee -- but the strategy has failed to stem the tide of regular junk mail. [NewsFactor]

Activists decry a loophole in proposed U.S. anti-spam laws that would allow each spammer to send one unsolicited e-mail before an ISP could take action against the spammer. [E-Commerce Times]

E-mail marketing - usually thought of as unwanted or spam messages crammed into e-mailboxes - must evolve if it is to continue in the years ahead, a new report says.

To date, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has only gone after spam in cases in which deceptive advertising was being prosecuted. Unsolicited commercial e-mail itself, regardless of its contents, has not been a target. [E-Commerce News]