Danes save Spam's bacon, BBC, 1997 December 23 (includes the origin of the word spam and a link to Page O'Spam!)
Brad Templeton, Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse

David Cheung, Spam and the law (PDF), Computer, 2004 July, p.7
Brian Whitworth and Elizabeth Whitworth, Spam and the Social-Technical Gap (Abstract), Computer, 2004 October, pp.38-45
Various, Curbing the spam problem (PDF), Computer, 2004 December, p.8-9 (exchanges re the Whitworths' article)

Wikipedia: Spam Spamming E-mail spam Wikipedia

Christopher Lueg, The Hidden Impacts of Anti-Spam Measures and their Contributions to the Digital Divide: An Exploratory Study, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004 November 13-18, Providence RI, USA, pp.176-183 (link to a late draft in PDF format; a very useful source of information)

My April Scientific American arrived too late for me to cite the following very informative article:
Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman and Robert Rounthwaite Stopping Spam, Scientific American, Vol.292, No.4, 2005 April, pp.24-31 ("what can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages?"; interestingly, although legislation is mentioned, it's ineffectiveness is repeatedly acknowledged)

M Van Alstyne, Th Loder and R Walsh, An Economic Answer for Spam (149KB PDF; "Imagine an e-mail filter that takes no time to learn your preferences, never makes mistakes identifying spam, and is costless to use. Researchers . . . have developed a spam solution that, under certain circumstances, can give you more value than even such a `perfect' filter.")

Joe Barr, Email Sender ID: The hype and the reality, NewsForge, 2004 August 26 (quotes Hadmut Danisch, giving a dead URL: "As has been recently illustrated, . . . sending spam is a business with significant revenues. But a much bigger business is selling anti-spam software. . . . There are extremely strong efforts to keep this market growing.")

Roger Riordan, Anti-spam Protocol, 2005 February 24

Mary O'Hara, Dangerous liaisons, The Guardian, 2005 May 4 (Donal McIntyre's fly-on-the-wall TV documentaries give startlingly edgy insights into links between injustice, poverty and crime; by way of contrast, then read England has 230,000 second homes)

Australian Government links   Spam Act 2003   (explanation)   Spam (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003   (explanation)   Spam Regulations 2004   (explanation)
What is a commercial electronic message? (PDF)

Spam Act 2003: An overview for business (PDF), 2004 February Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Federal Government
Spam Act 2003: A practical guide for business (HTML), 2004 February Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Federal Government
Spam Act 2003: Australian Direct Marketing and Spam (HTML), 2004 February Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Federal Government
Spam Report, 2003 April, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Federal Government

United States Congress, CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003)

European Union, Electronic Commerce, Privacy Protection, The Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC: link, English PDF
EU Anti-Spam Legislation useless in first year (via Unspam)
EU Directive on email marketing

US state acts to stop "spammers", BBC, 2005 January 14 (the Texas attorney general launches a lawsuit against two men it says are spammers)

Anthony Wong, The impact of Australia's anti-spam legislation ZDNet
Garry Barker, Spam legislation unlikely to stem the tide, The Age, 2003 April 22
The Age
Siobhan McBride, Spam legislation levies heavy fines, Computerworld, 2004 April 13
Ben Knight, Anti-spam legislation comes into effect, ABC, 2004 April 10
How Will Laws Against Spam Work? 2003 September, and The Spam Tide Rises 2005 January, PGTS Journal

India seeks curbs on mobile spam, BBC, 2005 February 8 (the Supreme Court of India urges the government to crack down on unsolicited telemarketing calls and text messages to mobile phones)

Tom Zeller Jr., Spam control failing, International Herald Tribune, 2005 February 2 (a year after a sweeping U.S. anti-spam law went into effect, there is more junk e-mail on the Internet than ever, and Levon Gillespie is one of the reasons)

Phone lottery scams illegal in EU, BBC, 2005 February 24 (telephone lottery scams have been banned EU-wide under new laws passed by the European Parliament)

Govt moves to ban websites promoting suicide (the Federal Government is working to introduce hefty fines for people who promote suicide on the Internet)

Net users learn to live with spam, BBC, 2005 April 11 (receiving spam is becoming a fact of life like air pollution and traffic congestion)

David Teather, Microsoft and Pfizer fight fake Viagra spammers, The Guardian, 2005 February 11 (drug maker Pfizer joins Microsoft to file 17 lawsuits aimed at cracking down on spammers)

Ross Mayfield, Comment Spam Solution (a blog on dealing with comment spam)

Erika Morphy, New York, Microsoft Lead Spam Offensive, CRM Daily, 2003 December 19

Clint Boulton, MSN Enlists McAfee in War Against Spam, Internet News, 2002 September 4

Paul Graham, A Plan for Spam, 2002 August (some spam-filtering techniques)

"Unit needed" to tackle net porn, BBC, 2005 March 4 (police say a new body is needed to tackle the rising number of online child porn offences)

Microsoft, How [to] keep spam out of your in box, 2004 March 9

Ken Young, Under control, The Guardian, 2005 March 3 (the fight against malicious hackers and viruses is being organised from a former nuclear shelter)

Joshua Goodman, Spam: Technologies and Policies, Microsoft, 2003 November (PDF; 19 page review)

US casino "tricks" face ban in UK, BBC, 2005 March 7 (controversial new British casinos will be banned from using American tricks of the trade to ensure they are "socially responsible")

Nils Pratley, Collins Stewart hunts down internet libeller, The Guardian, 2005 March 24 (the ability of users of internet bulletin boards toremain anonymous was placed in serious doubt yesterday after Terry Smith, chief executive of City firm Collins Stewart Tullett, won a landmark libel settlement)

Anick Jesdanum, Deleting Spam Costs Billions, Study Finds, Washington Post, 2005 February 2 (blog from Spam Newstrove)

Warnings about junk mail deluge, BBC, 2005 February 4 (experts warn that the amount of junk mail in circulation could be about to undergo a huge rise)

Katie Hafner, Software designers take on distractions, International Herald Tribune, 2005 February 12 (the goal is to minimize interruptions - but first, let me check my email)

John Naughton, Tune in, turn on, don't log out - getting high on broadband, The Observer, 2005 February 20 (Britain is getting broadband at an astonishing rate - an average of 6,600 new connections a day)

Google's toolbar sparks concern, BBC, 2005 February 22 (a trial version of a toolbar for search engine Google which links to pre-selected websites raises concerns)

Paul McIntyre, Telling us what brains really want, The Age, 2005 February 24 (Professor Richard Silberstein is taking a punt that the Australian advertising industry will embrace his brain monitoring technology)

Security warning over "FBI virus", BBC, 2005 February 24 (the FBI is warning that a computer virus is being spread va e-mails that purport to be from the US agency)

Justin McCurry, Seven die in online suicide pact in Japan, The Guardian, 2005 March 2 (seven people killed themselves within hours of each other in Japan in suicides committed after pacts made on the internet)

John Schwartz, Exposing the details, and those photos, too, International Herald Tribune, 2005 March 1 (data leaks highlight dangers online)

David Batty, Internet child porn offences rise, The Guardian, 2005 March 4 (the number of people arrested and convicted for downloading child abuse images from the internet has more than quadrupled in the last two years)

James Sturcke, Police foil £220m cyber bank robbery, The Guardian, 2005 March 17 (thieves planned to use a method known as keylogging to glean user names and passwords)

Peter Warren and Michael Streeter, Stealing the limelight, The Guardian, 2005 March 17 (global gangs are infiltrating our computers, which could threaten the success of the internet)

Rupert James, BT ready to cut off rogue diallers, The Guardian, 2005 March 16 (BT has announced new measures aimed at cracking down on internet "rogue dialler" services that have defrauded thousands of computer users)

Card fraudsters "targeting web", BBC, 2005 February 7 (new safeguards on credit and debit card payments in shops has led fraudsters to focus on internet and phone payments)

Roger Clarke, Little Black Books (during 2003, a new dot.com fashion arose from an odd amalgam of Rolodex address-books, e-communities and dating; users of these services store personal data on a central server, which can be accessed by other people, and, potentially at least, exploited by the service operator; the new dimension that these services bring is that they entice users to disclose personal data about others; see also)

Jo Twist, Solutions to net security fears, BBC, 2005 February 25 (banks are trying out different identity authentication methods to combat online fraud)

Rafael Behr, Every blog has its day, The Observer, 2005 February 27 (the charge most often levelled against the internet is that it is full of lies; in fact, the internet is as deceitful or otherwise as the non-internet, because it consists of people)

Nat Ives, Fears of fraud grow on pay-per-click ads, International Herald Tribune, 2005 March 4 (businesses that pay billions to Google and Overture to steer potential customers to their Web sites are increasingly questioning how much fraud lurks in the blossoming pay-per-click advertising)

Bank "scam" charges brought, BBC, 2005 March 3 (Strathclyde Police charge 30 people over a alleged banking scam involving nearly £2m)

ID fraud touches one in four, BBC, 2005 March 3 (a quarter of UK adults say they have had their identity stolen or know a victim of ID fraud)

Identity theft, Economist, 2005 March 5 (collecting, and stealing, personal information is big business)

UK card fraud rises above £500m, BBC, 2005 March 7 (credit and debit card fraud rose by a fifth to £505m last year)

Online advertisers soar at Yell, BBC, 2005 February 15 (telephone directory publisher Yell sees the number of advertisers on its website increase by 41.5% in the last nine months of 2004)

Garry Barker, Welcome to the wizard of video recorders, The Age, 2005 February 22 (relief is at hand for Australian couch potatoes infuriated with advertisements interrupting their viewing of the footy or the latest reality show; see also)

Dominic Timms, US online advertising rockets, The Guardian, 2005 February 23 (online advertising spending leapt by nearly a third last year as the internet continued to gain ground over television, newspapers and other traditional media)

Bobbie Johnson, Posting for profit, The Guardian, 2005 February 24 (as weblogs soar in number and influence, their business potential lands many in the money)

Kate Bulkley, Pushing all the right buttons, The Guardian, 2005 February 28 (interactive TV commercials are not just a gimmick - they really sell products and they are here to stay)

Jonathan Miller, Floater ads create "an arms race", International Herald Tribune, 2005 January 26 (not to be confused with pop-up ads, floaters, or overlays, or pop-overs, can evade the pop-up blockers that many Web browsers have incorporated)

Travel firms take Google action, BBC, 2005 March 3 (three top travel operators take action to ensure internet users are driven to their websites first when searching through Google)

Game gets pre-watershed ad ban, BBC, 2005 March 2 (TV ads for a violent computer game are banned from being shown before the 9.00pm watershed after complaints)

Paul Carr, It makes no sense to try and censor, The Guardian, 2005 March 7 (rulings over television advertising make little sense in a world that is increasingly dominated by the internet)

Mary Branscombe, Get the message, The Guardian, 2005 March 10 (text messages are increasingly being used to conduct business)

Online loans exchange launched, BBC, 2005 March 7 (a website which puts borrowers in touch with people who are willing to lend them money for a fee launches)

Courts question anti-piracy rule, BBC, 2005 February 23 (the US broadcast regulator has beeen told by a court it has "crossed the line" with an anti-piracy code designed to stop shows being pirated)

World population "to rise by 40%", BBC, 2005 February 25 (the world's population will swell from the current 6.5 billion to 9.1 billion by 2050, a UN report says)
Global digital divide "narrowing", BBC, 2005 February 25 (the "digital divide" between rich and poor nations is narrowing fast)

Paul Carr, The bloggers shall inherit the Gonzo, The Guardian, 2005 February 28 (the incomparable life of Hunter S Thompson)

John Markoff, "Podcasting" goes professional, International Herald Tribune, 2005 January 28 (a Web-based system that is aimed at making a business of podcasting - the process of creating, finding, organizing and listening to digital audio files that range from living-room ramblings to BBC broadcasts)

Alan Feuer and Jason George, A little "Numa Numa" leads to loss of privacy, International Herald Tribune, 2005 March 1 (Gary Brolsma made the mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song)

Plan unveiled for Oyster e-money, BBC, 2005 March 3 (Transport for London's Oyster cards may soon be used for buying groceries and paying for car parking)

Hotspot users gain free net calls, BBC, 2005 March 3 (the net telephony firm Skype is partnering with wi-fi firm Broadreach to offer free net telephone calls)

Local food "greener than organic", BBC, 2005 March 2 (buying locally produced food is even more important for the environment than buying organic)

Rebecca Lieb, Reports of E-Mail's Death Greatly Exaggerated, ClickZ, 2005 March 15