Take A Bite Outta SPAM
CNN reports on a concerted effort under way by the top ISPs, including Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, and Yahoo! to legally challenge the efforts of the largest spammers.
The companies said the defendants include some of the nation's most notorious large-scale spammers. The Internet providers -- collectively with tens of millions of subscribers -- said they shared information, resources and investigative information to identify some of the defendants.
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The "can spam" legislation requires unsolicited e-mails to include a mechanism so recipients could indicate they did not want future mass mailings.
The law also prohibits senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail from disguising their identity by using a false return address or misleading subject line, and it prohibits senders from harvesting addresses off Web sites.
I guess this is the third front Bill is challenging them on.