Junk e-mail, known commonly as spam, continues to flood inboxes throughout the country. Terence Smith examines the continued effort to block the deluge of unwanted e-mail. You open your computer inbox ...

Q: My Outlook e-mail program keeps receiving similar spam messages, even though I've labeled them as junk and blocked their senders. These e-mails have little rectangles between the letters in the ...

We are seeking confirmation for an issue where Mail.app seemingly suddenly stops filtering junk mail, and subsequently crashes when attempting to flag messages as junk. MacFixIt reader Michael Hamner ...

Lawyers say the new federal law targeting unsolicited “junk” e-mail doesn’t have much bite. Called the “Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003,” the law levies ...

It's hard to believe, but people continue to open spam e-mail, setting themselves up for viruses, botnets, and other malfeasance. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...

Bulk e-mailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick, experts said this week. The ...

COMMENTARY--How much would you pay to do away with spam--the unwanted messages that clog your e-mail box? Would you be willing to pay a penny for every e-mail you send? That's about what I think it ...

The arguments about opt-in versus opt-out marketing can be intense. Both approaches have their supporters: The opt-out method is typically favored by business leaders, who claim that all’s fair in ...

It seems like a no-brainer: Spam is a nuisance. ‘‘Doesn't that annoy everybody?'' said Michelle Gregg, 30, strolling the streets of Seattle with her husband and a friend. A new, comprehensive report ...

E-mail correspondence may soon carry a price tag. Yahoo! and America Online, two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, plan to introduce a service that charges a small fee to route e-mail ...

Subsection 4 provides that e-mail senders must include a toll-free number or valid return e-mail address that consumers and businesses can use to request that no further unsolicited e-mails be sent.