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Dam spam.
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, April 30:
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Now is the time for Congress to put a stake through the heart of spam. Never have conditions been more ripe for bold legislation.
The volume of spam is ballooning and will soon account for half of all e-mail. If unchecked, what once was a mere annoyance will cripple a life-changing communication tool. Congress should ban spam.
Businesses and government agencies are already forced to spend millions to manage spam. It has become so damaging and reviled that rivals such as AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo are vowing to work together against it. The Direct Marketing Association, the heavyweight lobbying group that has opposed most anti-spam laws, now admits federal legislation is needed. And Wednesday the Federal Trade Commission began three days of hearings on the issue.
Lawmakers ought to seize the ...
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- THE GRIPE LINE: Kids as bait for junk faxes - Fax.com builds database for junk...
- Magazine article from: InfoWorld Foster, Ed July 23, 2001 700+ words
...crime? After about six weeks of junk faxes, I got one that made up my mind...seems to be a new melding of fax spam and Internet spam." I examined Fax.com a year...dialing) and was now sending me junk faxes. Was it Fax.com? It was possible...
- THE GRIPE LINE: Fighting back on the fax.(junk faxes)(Company Business and...
- Magazine article from: InfoWorld Foster, Ed August 13, 2001 700+ words
...reducing the number of junk faxes. One reader, whose company...get between eight and 15 junk faxes per day, says, "We...caller ID. Virtually all spam faxers block their numbers...readers advocate treating junk faxes as the illegal acts the...
- Venali Fax Protector Terminates Junk Faxes - Forever; Integration with...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 14, 2003 700+ words
...lends itself perfectly to combating junk faxes. Therefore, I'm very pleased to...Receiving junk fax - like email spam - is a growing problem. Venali estimates...traditional fax machine, not only are junk faxes annoying and distracting, but they...
- Junk faxes profitable for some.
- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) September 10, 2005 700+ words
...Joe Kollin Sep. 10--Junk faxes have proved very valuable...townhouse, take their junk faxes every two weeks to Joel...receiving 75 percent fewer junk faxes. The money they collect...But unlike those who get spam, the recipient of the...
- Junk faxes are illegal. So why are you getting them?(CR technology)
- Magazine article from: Consumer Reports March 1, 2004 700+ words
...President Bush signed the federal anti-spam bill (the CAN-SPAM Act) in December, the White House hailed...balanced approach" that will help curb spam. But if a previous federal ban on junk faxes, included in the Telephone Consumer Protection...
- Lieff Cabraser Announces $2.2 Trillion Class Action Lawsuit Filed to Stop Junk...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 22, 2002 700+ words
...federal law prohibiting junk faxes. "When the defendant...As with e-mail spam, junk faxing has recently...If you are receiving junk faxes or get a call on your...the people who receive junk faxes were to take legal action...
- Senate bill targets ban on junk faxes.
- News wire article from: Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) April 21, 2005 700+ words
...considering legislation that would gut a ban on junk faxes and, if passed, could unleash a torrent of "paper spam" on unsuspecting consumers, the bill...the receiving end of so-called "paper spam" and hopes that Congress doesn't pass...
- FCC fines Fax.com $5.3 million for junk faxes.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (Washington, DC) January 5, 2004 700+ words
...fax machine only to find their resources have been wasted on spam and junk," Powell said in a written statement. "We're...and unlawful intrusions _ whether from telemarketing calls or junk faxes." The fine is the latest regulatory crackdown on consumer...
- FCC fines Fax.com $5.3 million for junk faxes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Pugh, Tony January 5, 2004 700+ words
...fax machine only to find their resources have been wasted on spam and junk," Powell said in a written statement. "We're...and unlawful intrusions _ whether from telemarketing calls or junk faxes." The fine is the latest regulatory crackdown on consumer...
Source: HighBeam Research, Dam spam.