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Stopping spammers as easy as winning arms race: changing tactics, technology give bulk e-mailers an edge; ''they get trickier every day''.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-JUL-03
Format: Online - approximately 735 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Stopping spammers as easy as winning arms race: changing tactics, technology give bulk e-mailers an edge; ''they get trickier every day''.(In-depth report: saturated with spam)

Article Excerpt
Ken J. Moser had seen enough.

The San Diego businessman finally plunked down $60 for a product called Spare Arrest.

For two years, a Seattle-area company of the same name will screen his e-mail so he doesn't have to wade through 50 or so advertisements per day.

So far, Moser reports, the purchase has been worth the price.

Seismic shifts in computer technology may have done great things for productivity, but they have also produced an avalanche of unsolicited e-mails.

Computer owners try to beat the spammers' tricks with technology--but that's tough to do.

Block a message and a spammer will just find a way around the obstruction. Repeat...

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