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Walking the Line Between E-Mail and Spam
Getting people to say yes to marketing e-mails, and then getting them the messages that are most likely to make them buy, is a thriving industry of its own. [E-Commerce Times]
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/8966.html
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New Battle Strategies Heat Up War On Spam
Some say the only way to stop the spread of e-mail Spam is to charge e-mail users a fee -- but the strategy has failed to stem the tide of regular junk mail. [NewsFactor]
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/7217.html
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U.S. Gains in War Against 'Spam' Fraud
In ongoing investigations, the FTC and Project Mailbox found that many unsolicited e-mail sweepstakes offerings, travel offers and work-at-home schemes are fraudulent. [NewsFactor]
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/6508.html
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Can Spam Ever Be Stopped?
Activists decry a loophole in proposed U.S. anti-spam laws that would allow each spammer to send one unsolicited e-mail before an ISP could take action against the spammer. [E-Commerce Times]
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/9581.html
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Spam Report: U.S. Regulators Ignore Most Junk E-Mail
To date, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has only gone after spam in cases in which deceptive advertising was being prosecuted. Unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) itself, regardless of its contents, has not been a target. [E-Commerce News]
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13397.html
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Hackers, Spammers May Be Punished as Terrorists
Theoretically, because violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 have been included in the terrorism crackdown, hackers and spammers could be sentenced to life in prison. [News Factor]
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/13792.html
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CNN: Euro ministers agree on spam 'n' cookies
European telecommunication ministers have agreed that unsolicited e-mail and wireless text messages should be prohibited under a new data protection law.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/07/euro.spam.cookies.idg/index.html
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UK marketeers to challenge EU email ban
The British marketing industry has begun the fight back against European Union proposals to ban all unsolicited emails. [Guardian Unlimited]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4119516,00.html
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Apocryphal E-Mail Bedevils Va. Sender
She meant well. That's what Rose Lambert tells herself every morning when her e-mail folder begins to bulge with missives from around the globe, and she starts to slip again into her deep, private hell. [Washington Post]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A36923-2001May16&notFound=true
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BBC News: EU laws target junk mail spam
Consumers across Europe who have been plagued by junk e-mails and phone messages are being told that new laws are on the way to control them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1706221.stm
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