In the past year, spam has moved beyond personal e-mail accounts, invading business systems and graduating from societal pest to corporate enemy.

The direct marketing firm suing a Perth man for speaking out against spam has lost its internet access.

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

A US law firm has become the hero of the common people for its decision to take on the spam merchants who wage guerrilla warfare on our e-mail inboxes, offering everything from sex to cars and easy money to psychic readings.

Sprint Communications is facing a lawsuit in Utah alleging that it sent unsolicited commercial messages, or spam, in violation of a recently enacted state statute.

An article about hyped mail-filtering products versus freely available SpamAssassin.

The small city of Battle Creek, Michigan, wants to lock up an anti-spam activist who it believes crashed its mail server. Never mind that the town government was using a buggy version of the Lotus Domino e-mail server, and that newer releases have fixed the problem. And never mind that anti-spammers may have been conducting a routine scan for possible sources of bulk e-mail.

Web-hosting company won its battle against an antispam activist, but the war is far from over.

Jesus preached the gospel of turning the other cheek, but what would he have said about spam?

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.

Workplace privacy will be casualty in war on spam.

The Direct Marketing Association has created mandatory ground rules for members sending sales pitches via e-mail, a move designed to help avoid a government crackdown on commercial messages.

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

Three-part article about the problem, the spammers, and some solutions.

Ordinary Web surfers could play a major role in stemming the rising tide of junk e-mail crippling the Net, if a new anti-spam company hits its mark.