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...Year In Spam The U.S.'s year-old CAN-SPAM laws, meant to curb unsolicited e-mail, have had little impact, according to antispam company MX Logic, which estimates that 77% of all e-mail is spam. Feedback by users of America Online show that 2003's favorite spam subjects, Oprah Winfrey, teens and Viagra, were overtaken in 2004 by ID-theft scams, mortgage deals and substitutes for the withdrawn arthritis painkiller Vioxx...
...Proportion of junk e-mail that can be traced to 200 digital-marketing groups, the largest of which are being sued by Internet companies under new U.S. antispam laws...
Meanwhile, in Washington another group of humans is dealing with the spam threat at a rather more sedentary pace. Congress has debated e-mail-protection bills for five years without enacting anything. Antispam measures before it this session have a better chance of passing, but none is generating much enthusiasm among either consumer groups or e-mail providers. This is what Senator John McCain told TIME about the legislation expected to pass his Commerce Committee: "I'll support it, report it, vote for it, take credit for it, but will it make much difference? I don't think...
Like many other antispam advocates, Barrett prefers the model of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, which effectively put an end to junk faxes by allowing consumers to sue senders at a rate of up to $500 for every unsolicited fax. California is expected to pass a bill that would do the same thing for unwanted e-mails sent to or from any computer in the state. It would also require spammers to use only opt-in lists for their targets. The problem? It's just one state, and 28 other states have entirely different antispam laws...
Those who send spam for a living contend that some vigilantes, in their antispam fervor, take it too far. "I have had death threats against my family," complains Robert (Bubba) Catts, a former used-car salesman and professional bull rider from Shreveport, La. Catts, who runs a 10 million--message-a-day direct-marketing business and clears up to $700,000 a year, was exposed when his address and phone number were listed, along with those of 179 other "top spammers," on the British-based website Spamhaus.org...