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  • Howard draws fire on spam from rival

    Prime Minister John Howard's electoral "spamming" tactic has irked one of his rival candidates for the Sydney seat of Bennelong, Troy Rollo -- who also happens to be a prominent former anti-spam activist.

  • Bots fail "humanness" test again

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'bots' still have a lot of evolving to do before they can successfully impersonate human behaviour in a chatroom, according to the results of this year's Loebner Prize Contest in AI.

  • Aust anti-spam legislation beats international rivals

    Australia's legislation against spam has fared better in the opinions of anti-spam activists than its international counterparts.

  • Aussie spammer sues anti-spammer in world-first case

    An alleged Australian spammer is suing an anti-spam advocate after being blacklisted by a spam prevention Web site, in what is believed to be a first of its kind case worldwide and one that could end up -bigger than Ben Hur", according to a source close to the proceedings.

  • Filters flawed in the fight against spam

    Peer-to-peer networks are arousing optimism in the fight against spam but according to the Australian Coalition against Unsolicited Bulk Email they may actually contribute to the problem.

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