Perth-based direct marketing firm T3 Direct is suing a man for allegedly getting the company on a black-list run by the SPEWS.org website.

The European Union has a law banning unsolicited junk e-mail. Japan has one restricting pitches sent to wireless devices. And the United States?

Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use.

More than pop-up ads or in-your-face Web graphics, a withering assault of junk e-mail is souring the Internet experience. This is the second story of a three-part series that examines the surge in spam, the people behind it and the struggle to thwart them.

Like most people, Massimo Cavazzini was sick of spam. Unlike most, though, the Italian entrepreneur had the law on his side.

According to US-based net think-tank the Nielsen Norman Group, people can have highly emotional reactions to e-mail newsletters.

The Federal Trade Commission is planning to announce a series of actions against suspected spammers in coming weeks.

The anti-spam community has set up a fund to raise money for a legal battle with a Perth-based direct marketing company.

The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday.

New spam filter uses peer-to-peer networking tricks.

The Perth man at the centre of a legal dispute over anti-spam block-lists has claimed his innocence and asked for the case against him to be thrown out of court.

Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address.

You can get paid to receive ads on your mobile, but it might burst the spam dam, writes Nicole Manktelow.

A Christian organisation has accused the company behind an anti-spam lawsuit of using its IP addresses without permission.

Spam has become such a menace to the Internet that the Federal Trade Commission should take swift steps to stanch the flow of bulk e-mail, three consumer groups said Wednesday.