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...Estimated percentage of all e-mails that were unsolicited "spam" messages in January 2004, when the U.S. Congress passed the anti-junk mail Can-Spam Act 80% Estimated percentage that are "spam" messages today...
...years ago, then-BMF president Terry forwarded black history facts to House e-mail lists daily in February. After some students in Lowell House objected to the messages, calling them “spam,” others raised accusations of racism. The House Masters and Senior Tutor e-mailed Lowell students asking them to exercise courtesy...
...student composes long messages in an attempt to elicit an equally long response and sends them to nearly everyone in his address book. In the worst case scenarios, the student may begin to read his or her spam or e-mail the parents...
...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Oprah Winfrey, teens and Viagra, were overtaken in 2004 by ID-theft scams, mortgage deals and substitutes for the withdrawn arthritis painkiller Vioxx...
...backlash against ads in feeds," says Eric Peterson, an analyst for Jupiter Research, because they might alienate users by destroying the flow of clutter-free information. The danger, RSS proponents realize, is that RSS ads could become just like Web pop-ups or e-mail ads - another form of spam. But Peterson doubts whether either subscription or advertising can sustain stand-alone RSS firms. Acquisition, he suggests, might be the best business strategy. "I think there's more potential for larger companies to buy these smaller RSS services," he says...