CAUCE joins in anti-spyware amicus brief
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today, CAUCE joins the Center for Democracy and Technology to argue that anti-spyware vendors should be protected by the liability protections afforded other filtering companies under the Communications Decency Act. CAUCE joined a...
Colorado has a new spam law
CAUCE director John Levine notes:The governor of Colorado recently signed a new anti-spam law into effect. Since CAN SPAM draws a tight line around what states can do, this law is mostly interesting for the way that it pushes as firmly against that line as it can.Read...
I need a job, and just got some spiffy email about a new job site!
Posted on behalf of: Neil Schwartzman, Executive Director CAUCEA friend of mine just wrote to me about a new service called NotchUp.com so I looked them up on DomainTools.Now, why would a company obfuscate their domain registration? I can't think of a good reason...
If it spams like a duck…
by J.D. Falk "Plaintiff e360Insight, LLC is a marketer. It refers to itself as an Internet marketing company. Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call it a spammer. e360 sends e-mail solicitations and advertisements, for a fee, to...
Q&A: Talking Points Against spam
Q:Dear CAUCE,I need your help. I work for an organization that sends an email newsletter once a week. Someone in my office came up with the bright idea that we should auto-subscribe every person in our offline database and let them "opt-out" if they...
Letter to the Editor: In Support of The Spamhaus Project
A letter to the editor sent to Ken Magill of Direct News / Magilla Marketing* Reposted with Permission from Neil's Personal Blog.Ken,Thank-you for your April 1 column 'Anonymous Group Takes Aim at Spamhaus', it is no joke.Consider for a moment what the...
Trust in Email Begins with Authentication
by J.D. FalkAs most CAUCE supporters already know, forging From: or other commonly seen email headers is trivially easy. It's one of the most frustrating oversights in the creation of Internet email technology -- though of course that's only obvious in...
CAUCE in the News
John Levine is quoted in this recient article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, discussing recient spikes in fake drug spam being sent from hijacked computers. Read the full story here: Two major spam cases end up in Seattle.
Megaspammer Robert Soloway pleads guilty
Large scale spammer Robert Soloway, whose criminal trial was scheduled to start next week, pled guilty to most of the criminal charges against himCAUCE board member John Levine comments on the case in his blog.
Ralsky indictment is good news for all email users
by J.D. FalkI've always maintained that spam does not make one great, but Al Ralsky kept a relatively high profile for long enough that his unwelcome intrusions into our inboxes — and our friends' inboxes, and our parents' inboxes, and our children's...
Should I send CAUCE copies of the spam I recieve?
Please do not send us any copies or samples of the spam you receive. As a group we receive thousands of spam messages every day, as individuals we receive hundreds to our personal accounts. We are an advocacy group, not a spam reporting service or the "internet...
eBay, Paypal and Yahoo!
Yahoo users can feel a little bit more secure when receiving email from eBay and Paypal after Thursday's Yahoo! yodel: Say goodbye to eBay and PayPal fraudsters."We've teamed up with eBay and PayPal to become the first Web mail service to block the...
