Chief Marketer Staff

• Spam Suit Won in Kansas

  A Kansas man was awarded $500 in damages for receiving a piece of spam, in the first test of that state

• Short Cuts

  Torstar Media Group Television, in Toronto, has changed the name of its 24-hour infomercial channel from Toronto Star TV to SHOPTV Canada. Hardware and

• Sharper Image Sees Revenue Jump after Higher Promo Spending

  The Sharper Image reported revenue of $523.3 million during fiscal 2002, up from $396.22 million a year earlier. The company

• Anti-Spam Bill Full of Holes, Former AIM Exec Says

  The anti-spam bill introduced last week is not as good for direct marketers as some thought at first blush. For one thing, it seems to recognize the Internet

• Landmark’s Investment in Alliant Allows Co-op Database Completion

  Landmark Communications has acquired an equity stake in Alliant Cooperative Data Solutions. The stock purchase is valued in the seven figures, and gives

• Letters to the Editor

  Re: Direct Newsline, Letters to the Editor, April 10, 2003: I appreciate Janice Mayo

• List and Database News

  Drug Topics This file is newly updated, and now features 138,866 subscribers/recipients to this journal. Readers include community, hospital, HMO and

• Gordon Named to Amazon.com Board

  William B. “Bing” Gordon has been elected to Amazon.com’s board of directors. Gordon is executive vice president and chief creative officer of Electronic

• USA Interactive Acquires Outstanding Shares of Hotels.com

  USA Interactive will purchase the outstanding portion of Hotel.com

• Curmudgeon-at-Large: Positioning: You’ve Been Pre-Disapproved

  My friend Bob Dunhill (of Dunhill International Lists) is sad. The World Financial Network National Bank wrote him that the “Bank” was “unable to verify