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...Discount Viagra? Microsoft boss Bill Gates vowed to rid the world of spam within two years - by hitting the senders' pocketbook. Microsoft is developing a method of charging spammers for every unsolicited message rejected as junk mail...
TECHNOLOGY: Cell-phone ring tones; the first federal spam bill; a digital camera that swivels...
...strong is the first federal law regulating spam, which goes into effect Jan. 1? Signed by President Bush on Dec. 16, the Can-Spam Act stipulates that e-mail marketers must clearly label their messages as advertisements and include an "Internet-based" opt-out feature. What the bill doesn't do is bar advertisers from sending unsolicited e-mail in the first place. Instead, consumers must opt out of every marketing offer they receive--an onerous task. Critics argue that the bill may actually encourage more marketers to start spamming consumers, since the law makes it perfectly legal...
...Proportion of all e-mail that will be unsolicited spam by the end of 2003, according to a U.N. report. In January, spam accounted for only 25% of e-mail...
Dawson conceded, however, that such specificity could easily have triggered recipient’s spam filters...