Legislation to ban or limit spam is proliferating almost as rapidly as the e-mails that promise to provide a slim, wealthy, well-endowed, sexually satisfied life. But antispam advocates disagree over whether legislation such as the recently passed United Kingdom and California . . .
Legislation to ban or limit spam is proliferating almost as rapidly as the e-mails that promise to provide a slim, wealthy, well-endowed, sexually satisfied life. But antispam advocates disagree over whether legislation such as the recently passed United Kingdom and California antispam laws will slow the flood of spam, due to loopholes that could be easily exploited by bulk e-mailers. Advocates and legal experts also warn that any local law will have, at best, a limited effect, and are calling for a consistent, comprehensive global ban on spam.

"Overall we need a combination of new laws to let spam recipients and Internet service providers sue spammers to change the economics of spam, and modest technical improvements to Internet mail to make it easier to establish where a message really came from," said John Levine, a board member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail.

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