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  • US House passes antispam bill

    The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

  • Internet spammer sentenced

    A Queensland man has received a two-year suspended sentence for spamming up to four million people and placing misleading messages on Internet bulletin boards in an attempt to hike up the value of shares in a US company.

  • Freemail.com.au under fire --spammer sparks 'attack'

    Australian free e-mail provider freemail.com.au is currently being bombarded by servers around the globe after a spammer's decision to include the company in junk messages promoting everything from hair-loss treatments to Viagra.

  • Virginia files felony spam charges

    Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced Thursday that his office had made its first felony indictment under the state's antispam law.

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