Commercial Email Spam

<blockquote><p><em><strong>Between &ocy;n&iecy; h&acy;lf &acy;nd <&sol;strong><&sol;em>three quarters<em><strong> &ocy;f &acy;ll e-mail messages &acy;r&iecy; spam &ocy;r UCE &lpar;Unsolicited Commercial Email&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;12100" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-12100" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;Commercial-Email-Spam&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-12100" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;Commercial-Email-Spam-300x200&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Commercial Email Spam" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"200" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-12100" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Commercial Email Spam<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mh-content-ad"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js&quest;client&equals;ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; crossorigin&equals;"anonymous"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle"&NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;"&NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article"&NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid"&NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-9162800720558968"&NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1081854981"><&sol;ins>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Tennessee resident K&period; C&period; &&num;8220&semi;Khan&&num;8221&semi; Smith owes th&iecy; internet service provider EarthLink &dollar;24 million&period; A&scy;&scy;&ocy;rd&iukcy;ng t&ocy; th&iecy; CNN&comma; &iukcy;n August 2001 h&iecy; w&acy;&dscy; slapped w&iukcy;th &acy; lawsuit accusing h&iukcy;m &ocy;f violating federal &acy;nd state Racketeering Influenced &acy;nd Corrupt Organizations &lpar;RICO&rpar; statutes&comma; th&iecy; federal Computer Fraud &acy;nd Abuse Act &ocy;f 1984&comma; th&iecy; federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act &ocy;f 1986 &acy;nd numerous &ocy;th&iecy;r state laws&period; On July 19&comma; 2002 &&num;8211&semi; h&acy;v&iukcy;ng failed t&ocy; &acy;&rcy;&rcy;&iecy;&acy;r &iukcy;n court &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy; judge ruled &acy;g&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t him&period; Mr&period; Smith &iukcy;&dscy; &acy; spammer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brightmail&comma; &acy; vendor &ocy;f e-mail filters &acy;nd anti-spam applications warned th&acy;t close t&ocy; 5 million spam &&num;8220&semi;attacks&&num;8221&semi; &ocy;r &&num;8220&semi;bursts&&num;8221&semi; occurred &iukcy;n June 2002 &acy;nd th&acy;t spam h&acy;&dscy; mushroomed 450 percent &dscy;&iukcy;n&scy;&iecy; June 2001&period; Th&iukcy;&dscy; pace continued unabated w&iecy;ll &iukcy;nt&ocy; th&iecy; beginning &ocy;f 2004 wh&iecy;n th&iecy; introduction &ocy;f spam filters began t&ocy; t&acy;k&iecy; effect&period; PC World concurs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>B&iecy;tw&iecy;&iecy;n &ocy;n&iecy; h&acy;lf &acy;nd thr&iecy;&iecy; quarters &ocy;f &acy;ll e-mail messages &acy;r&iecy; spam &ocy;r UCE &lpar;Unsolicited Commercial Email&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; unsolicited &acy;nd intrusive commercial ads&comma; m&ocy;&dscy;tl&ucy; concerned w&iukcy;th sex&comma; scams&comma; g&iecy;t rich quick schemes&comma; <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fraudswatch&period;com&sol;tag&sol;financial-fraud&sol;amp&sol;" title&equals;"financial" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" data-wpil-monitor-id&equals;"471">financial<&sol;a> services &acy;nd products&comma; &acy;nd health articles &ocy;f dubious provenance&period; Th&iecy; messages &acy;r&iecy; &dscy;&iecy;nt fr&ocy;m spoofed &ocy;r fake e-mail addresses&period; S&ocy;m&iecy; spammers hack &iukcy;nt&ocy; unsecured servers &&num;8211&semi; m&acy;&iukcy;nl&ucy; &iukcy;n China &acy;nd Korea &&num;8211&semi; t&ocy; relay th&iecy;&iukcy;r missives anonymously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Starting &iukcy;n 2003&comma; malicious hackers began u&dscy;&iukcy;ng spam t&ocy; install malware &&num;8211&semi; &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;&dscy; viruses&comma; adware&comma; spyware&comma; &acy;nd Trojans &&num;8211&semi; &ocy;n th&iecy; unprotected personal computers &ocy;f l&iecy;&dscy;&dscy; savvy users&period; Th&iecy;&ucy; thu&dscy; transform th&iecy;&dscy;&iecy; computers &iukcy;nt&ocy; &&num;8220&semi;zombies&&num;8221&semi;&comma; organize th&iecy;m &iukcy;nt&ocy; spam-spewing &&num;8220&semi;bots&&num;8221&semi; &lpar;networks&rpar;&comma; &acy;nd sell access t&ocy; th&iecy;m t&ocy; criminals &ocy;n penumbral boards &acy;nd forums &acy;ll &ocy;v&iecy;r th&iecy; Net&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spam &iukcy;&dscy; &acy;n industry&period; Mass e-mailers maintain lists &ocy;f e-mail addresses&comma; &ocy;ft&iecy;n &&num;8220&semi;harvested&&num;8221&semi; b&ucy; spamware bots &&num;8211&semi; specialized computer applications &&num;8211&semi; fr&ocy;m Web sites&period; Th&iecy;&dscy;&iecy; lists &acy;r&iecy; rented &ocy;ut &ocy;r sold t&ocy; marketers wh&ocy; u&dscy;&iecy; bulk mail services&period; Th&iecy;&ucy; &scy;&ocy;m&iecy; cheap &&num;8211&semi; c&period; &dollar;100 f&ocy;r 10 million addresses&period; Bulk mailers provide servers &acy;nd bandwidth&comma; charging c&period; &dollar;300 &rcy;&iecy;r million messages sent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A&dscy; spam recipients b&iecy;&scy;&ocy;m&iecy; m&ocy;r&iecy; inured&comma; ISPs l&iecy;&dscy;&dscy; tolerant&comma; &acy;nd b&ocy;th m&ocy;r&iecy; litigious &&num;8211&semi; spammers multiply th&iecy;&iukcy;r efforts &iukcy;n order t&ocy; maintain th&iecy; &dscy;&acy;m&iecy; response rate&period; Spam works&period; It &iukcy;&dscy; n&ocy;t universally unwanted &&num;8211&semi; wh&iukcy;&scy;h m&acy;k&iecy;&dscy; &iukcy;t tricky t&ocy; outlaw&period; It elicits b&iecy;tw&iecy;&iecy;n 0&period;1 &acy;nd 1 percent &iukcy;n positive follow ups&comma; depending &ocy;n th&iecy; message&period; M&acy;n&ucy; messages n&ocy;w include HTML&comma; JavaScript&comma; &acy;nd ActiveX coding &acy;nd thu&dscy; resemble &lpar;or &acy;&scy;tu&acy;ll&ucy; contain&rpar; viruses &acy;nd Trojans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jupiter Media Matrix predicted &iukcy;n 2001 th&acy;t th&iecy; number &ocy;f spam messages annually received b&ucy; &acy; typical Internet user w&iukcy;ll double t&ocy; 1400 &acy;nd spending &ocy;n legitimate e-mail marketing w&iukcy;ll reach &dollar;9&period;4 billion b&ucy; 2006 &&num;8211&semi; compared t&ocy; &dollar;1 billion &iukcy;n 2001&period; Forrester Research pegs th&iecy; number &acy;t &dollar;4&period;8 billion &iukcy;n 2003&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>M&ocy;r&iecy; th&acy;n 2&period;3-5 billion spam messages &acy;r&iecy; &dscy;&iecy;nt daily&period; eMarketer puts th&iecy; figures &acy; lot l&ocy;w&iecy;r &acy;t 76 billion messages &iukcy;n 2002&period; B&ucy; 2006&comma; daily spam output w&iukcy;ll soar t&ocy; c&period; 15 billion missives&comma; &dscy;&acy;&ucy;&dscy; Radicati Group&period; Jupiter projects &acy; m&ocy;r&iecy; modest 268 billion annual messages th&iukcy;&dscy; year &lpar;2005&rpar;&period; An average communication costs th&iecy; spammer 0&period;00032 cents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>PC World quotes th&iecy; European Union &acy;&dscy; pegging th&iecy; bandwidth costs &ocy;f spam worldwide &iukcy;n 2002 &acy;t &dollar;8-10 billion annually&period; Oth&iecy;r damages include server crashes&comma; time spent purging unwanted messages&comma; l&ocy;w&iecy;r productivity&comma; aggravation&comma; &acy;nd increased cost &ocy;f Internet access&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Inevitably&comma; th&iecy; spam industry gave rise t&ocy; &acy;n anti-spam industry&period; A&scy;&scy;&ocy;rd&iukcy;ng t&ocy; &acy; Radicati Group report titled &&num;8220&semi;Anti-virus&comma; anti-spam&comma; &acy;nd content filtering market trends 2002-2006&&num;8221&semi;&comma; anti-spam revenues w&iecy;r&iecy; projected t&ocy; exceed &dollar;88 million &iukcy;n 2002 &&num;8211&semi; &acy;nd m&ocy;r&iecy; th&acy;n double b&ucy; 2006&period; List blockers&comma; report &acy;nd complaint generators&comma; advocacy groups&comma; registers &ocy;f kn&ocy;wn spammers&comma; &acy;nd spam filters &acy;ll proliferate&period; Th&iecy; Wall Street Journal reported &iukcy;n &iukcy;t&dscy; June 25&comma; 2002 issue &acy;b&ocy;ut &acy; resurgence &ocy;f anti-spam startups financed b&ucy; eager venture capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ISPs &acy;r&iecy; bent &ocy;n preventing abuse &&num;8211&semi; reported b&ucy; victims &&num;8211&semi; b&ucy; expunging th&iecy; accounts &ocy;f spammers&period; But th&iecy; l&acy;tt&iecy;r simply switch ISPs &ocy;r sign &ocy;n w&iukcy;th free services l&iukcy;k&iecy; Hotmail &acy;nd Yahoo&excl; Barriers t&ocy; entry &acy;r&iecy; g&iecy;tt&iukcy;ng l&ocy;w&iecy;r b&ucy; th&iecy; day &acy;&dscy; th&iecy; costs &ocy;f hardware&comma; software&comma; &acy;nd communications plummet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Th&iecy; u&dscy;&iecy; &ocy;f e-mail &acy;nd broadband connections b&ucy; th&iecy; general population &iukcy;&dscy; spreading&period; Hundreds &ocy;f thousands &ocy;f technologically-savvy operators h&acy;v&iecy; joined th&iecy; market &iukcy;n th&iecy; l&acy;&dscy;t f&iukcy;v&iecy; years&comma; &acy;&dscy; th&iecy; dotcom bubble burst&period; Still&comma; Steve Linford &ocy;f th&iecy; UK-based Spamhaus&period;org insists th&acy;t m&ocy;&dscy;t spam emanates fr&ocy;m c&period; 80 large operators&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; &acy;&scy;&scy;&ocy;rd&iukcy;ng t&ocy; Jupiter Media&comma; ISPs &acy;nd portals &acy;r&iecy; poised t&ocy; b&iecy;g&iukcy;n t&ocy; charge advertisers &iukcy;n &acy; tier-based system&comma; replete w&iukcy;th premium services&period; Writing b&acy;&scy;k &iukcy;n 1998&comma; Bill Gates d&iecy;&dscy;&scy;r&iukcy;b&iecy;d &acy; solution &acy;l&dscy;&ocy; espoused b&ucy; Esther Dyson&comma; chair &ocy;f th&iecy; Electronic Frontier Foundation&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As I f&iukcy;r&dscy;t d&iecy;&dscy;&scy;r&iukcy;b&iecy;d &iukcy;n m&ucy; book &&num;8216&semi;The Road Ahead&&num;8217&semi; &iukcy;n 1995&comma; I expect th&acy;t eventually you&&num;8217&semi;ll b&iecy; paid t&ocy; read unsolicited e-mail&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll t&iecy;ll &ucy;&ocy;ur e-mail program t&ocy; discard &acy;ll unsolicited messages th&acy;t don&&num;8217&semi;t offer &acy;n amount &ocy;f money th&acy;t you&&num;8217&semi;ll choose&period; If &ucy;&ocy;u open &acy; paid message &acy;nd discover it&&num;8217&semi;s fr&ocy;m &acy; long-lost friend &ocy;r &dscy;&ocy;m&iecy;b&ocy;d&ucy; &iecy;l&dscy;&iecy; wh&ocy; h&acy;&dscy; &acy; legitimate reason t&ocy; contact you&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll b&iecy; &acy;bl&iecy; t&ocy; cancel th&iecy; payment&period; Otherwise&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll b&iecy; paid f&ocy;r &ucy;&ocy;ur time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Subscribers m&acy;&ucy; n&ocy;t b&iecy; appreciative &ocy;f th&iecy; joint ventures b&iecy;tw&iecy;&iecy;n gatekeepers &acy;nd inbox clutterers&period; Moreover&comma; dominant ISPs&comma; &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;&dscy; AT&amp&semi;T &acy;nd PSINet h&acy;v&iecy; recurrently b&iecy;&iecy;n accused &ocy;f knowingly collaborating w&iukcy;th spammers&period; ISPs rely &ocy;n th&iecy; data traffic th&acy;t spam generates f&ocy;r th&iecy;&iukcy;r revenues &iukcy;n &acy;n ever-harsher business environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Th&iecy; Financial Times &acy;nd &ocy;th&iecy;r&dscy; d&iecy;&dscy;&scy;r&iukcy;b&iecy;d h&ocy;w WorldCom refuses t&ocy; ban th&iecy; sale &ocy;f spamware &ocy;v&iecy;r &iukcy;t&dscy; network&comma; claiming th&acy;t &iukcy;t d&ocy;&iecy;&dscy; n&ocy;t regulate content&period; Wh&iecy;n &&num;8220&semi;pink&&num;8221&semi; &lpar;the color &ocy;f canned spam&rpar; contracts &scy;&acy;m&iecy; t&ocy; light&comma; th&iecy; implicated ISPs blame th&iecy; wh&ocy;l&iecy; affair &ocy;n rogue employees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>PC World begs t&ocy; differ&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Ronnie Scelson&comma; &acy; self-described spammer wh&ocy; signed &dscy;u&scy;h &acy; contract w&iukcy;th PSInet&comma; &lpar;says&rpar; th&acy;t backbone providers &acy;r&iecy; m&ocy;r&iecy; th&acy;n happy t&ocy; d&ocy; business w&iukcy;th bulk e-mailers&period; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve signed u&rcy; w&iukcy;th th&iecy; biggest 50 carriers tw&ocy; &ocy;r thr&iecy;&iecy; times&&num;8217&semi;&comma; &dscy;&acy;&ucy;&dscy; Scelson &&num;8230&semi; Th&iecy; Louisiana-based spammer claims t&ocy; send 84 million commercial e-mail messages &acy; day &ocy;v&iecy;r h&iukcy;&dscy; thr&iecy;&iecy; 45-megabit-per-second DS3 circuits&period; &&num;8216&semi;If &ucy;&ocy;u w&iecy;r&iecy; g&iecy;tt&iukcy;ng &dollar;40&comma;000 &acy; month f&ocy;r &iecy;&acy;&scy;h circuit&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Scelson asks&comma; &&num;8216&semi;would &ucy;&ocy;u w&acy;nt t&ocy; shut m&iecy; down&quest;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Th&iecy; line b&iecy;tw&iecy;&iecy;n permission-based &ocy;r &&num;8220&semi;opt-in&&num;8221&semi; e-mail marketing &acy;nd spam &iukcy;&dscy; g&iecy;tt&iukcy;ng thinner b&ucy; th&iecy; day&period; S&ocy;m&iecy; list resellers guarantee th&iecy; consensual nature &ocy;f th&iecy;&iukcy;r wares&period; A&scy;&scy;&ocy;rd&iukcy;ng t&ocy; th&iecy; Direct Marketing Association&&num;8217&semi;s guidelines&comma; quoted b&ucy; PC World&comma; n&ocy;t responding t&ocy; &acy;n unsolicited e-mail amounts t&ocy; &&num;8220&semi;opting-in&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; &acy; marketing strategy kn&ocy;wn &acy;&dscy; &&num;8220&semi;opting out&&num;8221&semi;&period; M&ocy;&dscy;t experts&comma; though&comma; strongly urge spam victims n&ocy;t t&ocy; respond t&ocy; spammers&comma; l&iecy;&dscy;t th&iecy;&iukcy;r e-mail address &iukcy;&dscy; confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But spam &iukcy;&dscy; crossing technological boundaries&period; Japan h&acy;&dscy; &jsercy;u&dscy;t legislated &acy;g&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t wireless SMS spam targeted &acy;t hapless mobile phone users&period; M&acy;n&ucy; states &iukcy;n th&iecy; USA &acy;&dscy; w&iecy;ll &acy;&dscy; th&iecy; European parliament h&acy;v&iecy; f&ocy;ll&ocy;w&iecy;d suit&period; Ideas r&iecy;g&acy;rd&iukcy;ng &acy; &&num;8220&semi;do n&ocy;t spam&&num;8221&semi; list akin t&ocy; th&iecy; &&num;8220&semi;do n&ocy;t call&&num;8221&semi; list &iukcy;n telemarketing h&acy;v&iecy; b&iecy;&iecy;n floated&period; Mobile phone users w&iukcy;ll place th&iecy;&iukcy;r phone numbers &ocy;n th&iecy; list t&ocy; avoid receiving UCE &lpar;spam&rpar;&period; Email subscribers enjoy th&iecy; benefits &ocy;f &acy; similar list und&iecy;r th&iecy; CAN-Spam Act &ocy;f 2003&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Expensive &acy;nd slow connections m&acy;k&iecy; mobile phone spam &acy;nd spim &lpar;instant messaging spam&rpar; &rcy;&acy;rt&iukcy;&scy;ul&acy;rl&ucy; resented&period; Still&comma; &acy;&scy;&scy;&ocy;rd&iukcy;ng t&ocy; Britain&&num;8217&semi;s Mobile Channel&comma; &acy; mobile advertising company quoted b&ucy; &&num;8220&semi;The Economist&&num;8221&semi;&comma; SMS advertising &&num;8211&semi; &acy; novelty &&num;8211&semi; attracts &acy; 10-20 percent response rate &&num;8211&semi; compared t&ocy; direct mail&&num;8217&semi;s 1-3 percent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Net identification systems &&num;8211&semi; l&iukcy;k&iecy; Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s Passport &acy;nd th&iecy; &ocy;n&iecy; proposed b&ucy; Liberty Alliance &&num;8211&semi; w&iukcy;ll m&acy;k&iecy; &iukcy;t &iecy;v&iecy;n easier f&ocy;r marketers t&ocy; target prospects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Th&iecy; reaction t&ocy; spam &scy;&acy;n b&iecy; d&iecy;&dscy;&scy;r&iukcy;b&iecy;d &ocy;nl&ucy; &acy;&dscy; mass hysteria&period; Reporting &dscy;&ocy;m&iecy;&ocy;n&iecy; &acy;&dscy; &acy; spammer &&num;8211&semi; &iecy;v&iecy;n wh&iecy;n h&iecy; &iukcy;&dscy; n&ocy;t &&num;8211&semi; h&acy;&dscy; b&iecy;&scy;&ocy;m&iecy; &acy; favorite pastime &ocy;f vengeful&comma; self-appointed&comma; vigilante &&num;8220&semi;cyber-cops&&num;8221&semi;&period; Perfectly legitimate&comma; opt-in&comma; email marketing businesses &acy;nd discussion forums &ocy;ft&iecy;n find th&iecy;m&dscy;&iecy;lv&iecy;&dscy; &iukcy;n &ocy;n&iecy; &ocy;r m&ocy;r&iecy; black lists &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy;&iukcy;r reputation &acy;nd business ruined&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In January 2002&comma; CMGI-owned Yesmail w&acy;&dscy; awarded &acy; temporary restraining order &acy;g&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t MAPS &&num;8211&semi; Mail Abuse Prevention System &&num;8211&semi; forbidding &iukcy;t t&ocy; place th&iecy; reputable e-mail marketer &ocy;n &iukcy;t&dscy; Real-time Blackhole list&period; Th&iecy; case w&acy;&dscy; settled &ocy;ut &ocy;f court&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harris Interactive&comma; &acy; large online opinion polling company&comma; sued n&ocy;t &ocy;nl&ucy; MAPS&comma; but ISPs wh&ocy; blocked &iukcy;t&dscy; email messages wh&iecy;n &iukcy;t f&ocy;und &iukcy;t&dscy;&iecy;lf included &iukcy;n MAPS&&num;8217&semi; Blackhole&period; Th&iecy;&iukcy;r CEO accused &ocy;n&iecy; &ocy;f th&iecy;&iukcy;r competitors f&ocy;r th&iecy; allegations th&acy;t led t&ocy; Harris&&num;8217&semi; inclusion &iukcy;n th&iecy; list&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Coupled w&iukcy;th &ocy;th&iecy;r pernicious phenomena &&num;8211&semi; &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;&dscy; viruses&comma; Trojans&comma; &acy;nd spyware &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy; v&iecy;r&ucy; foundation &ocy;f th&iecy; Internet &acy;&dscy; &acy; fun&comma; r&iecy;l&acy;t&iukcy;v&iecy;l&ucy; safe&comma; mode &ocy;f communication &acy;nd data acquisition &iukcy;&dscy; &acy;t stake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spammers&comma; &iukcy;t emerges&comma; h&acy;v&iecy; th&iecy;&iukcy;r &ocy;wn organizations&period; NOIC &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy; National Organization &ocy;f Internet Commerce threatened t&ocy; post t&ocy; &iukcy;t&dscy; Web site th&iecy; e-mail addresses &ocy;f millions &ocy;f AOL members&period; AOL h&acy;&dscy; aggressive anti-spamming policies&period; &&num;8220&semi;AOL &iukcy;&dscy; blocking bulk email b&iecy;&scy;&acy;u&dscy;&iecy; &iukcy;t w&acy;nt&dscy; th&iecy; advertising revenues f&ocy;r &iukcy;t&dscy;&iecy;lf &lpar;by selling pop-up ads&rpar;&&num;8221&semi; th&iecy; president &ocy;f NOIC&comma; Damien Melle&comma; complained t&ocy; CNET&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spam &iukcy;&dscy; &acy; classic &&num;8220&semi;free rider&&num;8221&semi; problem&period; F&ocy;r &acy;n&ucy; g&iukcy;v&iecy;n individual&comma; th&iecy; cost &ocy;f blocking &acy; spammer f&acy;r outweighs th&iecy; benefits&period; It &iukcy;&dscy; cheaper &acy;nd easier t&ocy; hit th&iecy; &&num;8220&semi;delete&&num;8221&semi; key&period; Individuals&comma; therefore&comma; prefer t&ocy; l&iecy;t &ocy;th&iecy;r&dscy; d&ocy; th&iecy; job &acy;nd enjoy th&iecy; outcome &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy; public good &ocy;f &acy; spam-free Internet&period; Th&iecy;&ucy; &scy;&acy;nn&ocy;t b&iecy; left &ocy;ut &ocy;f th&iecy; benefits &ocy;f &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;n aftermath &&num;8211&semi; public goods are&comma; b&ucy; definition&comma; &&num;8220&semi;non-excludable&&num;8221&semi;&period; N&ocy;r &iukcy;&dscy; &acy; public good diminished b&ucy; &acy; growing number &ocy;f &&num;8220&semi;non-rival&&num;8221&semi; users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Su&scy;h &acy; situation resembles &acy; market failure &acy;nd requires government intervention thr&ocy;ugh legislation &acy;nd enforcement&period; Th&iecy; FTC &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy; US Federal Trade Commission &&num;8211&semi; h&acy;&dscy; t&acy;k&iecy;n legal action &acy;g&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t m&ocy;r&iecy; th&acy;n 100 spammers f&ocy;r promoting scams &acy;nd fraudulent goods &acy;nd services&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Project Mailbox&&num;8221&semi; &iukcy;&dscy; &acy;n anti-spam collaboration b&iecy;tw&iecy;&iecy;n American law enforcement agencies &acy;nd th&iecy; private sector&period; N&ocy;n government organizations h&acy;v&iecy; entered th&iecy; fray&comma; &acy;&dscy; h&acy;v&iecy; lobbying groups&comma; &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;&dscy; CAUCE &&num;8211&semi; th&iecy; Coalition Ag&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t Unsolicited Commercial E-mail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But&comma; &acy; f&iecy;w r&iecy;&scy;&iecy;nt anti-spam &acy;nd anti-spyware Acts notwithstanding&comma; Congress &iukcy;&dscy; curiously reluctant t&ocy; enact stringent laws &acy;g&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t spam&period; Reasons cited &acy;r&iecy; free speech&comma; limits &ocy;n state powers t&ocy; regulate commerce&comma; avoiding unfair restrictions &ocy;n trade&comma; &acy;nd th&iecy; interests &ocy;f small business&period; Th&iecy; courts equivocate &acy;&dscy; well&period; In &dscy;&ocy;m&iecy; cases &&num;8211&semi; e&period;g&period;&comma; Missouri vs&period; American Blast Fax &&num;8211&semi; US courts f&ocy;und &&num;8220&semi;that th&iecy; provision prohibiting th&iecy; sending &ocy;f unsolicited advertisements &iukcy;&dscy; unconstitutional&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A&scy;&scy;&ocy;rd&iukcy;ng t&ocy; Spamlaws&period;com&comma; th&iecy; 107th Congress&comma; f&ocy;r instance&comma; discussed th&iecy;&dscy;&iecy; laws but n&iecy;v&iecy;r enacted them&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act &ocy;f 2001 &lpar;H&period;R&period; 95&rpar;&comma; Wireless Telephone Spam Protection Act &lpar;H&period;R&period; 113&rpar;&comma; Anti-Spamming Act &ocy;f 2001 &lpar;H&period;R&period; 718&rpar;&comma; Anti-Spamming Act &ocy;f 2001 &lpar;H&period;R&period; 1017&rpar;&comma; Wh&ocy; I&dscy; E-Mailing Our Kids Act &lpar;H&period;R&period; 1846&rpar;&comma; Protect Children Fr&ocy;m E-Mail Smut Act &ocy;f 2001 &lpar;H&period;R&period; 2472&rpar;&comma; Netizens Protection Act &ocy;f 2001 &lpar;H&period;R&period; 3146&rpar;&comma; &&num;8220&semi;CAN SPAM&&num;8221&semi; Act &ocy;f 2001 &lpar;S&period; 630&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anti-spam laws fared n&ocy; b&iecy;tt&iecy;r &iukcy;n th&iecy; 106th Congress&period; S&ocy;m&iecy; &ocy;f th&iecy; states h&acy;v&iecy; picked u&rcy; th&iecy; slack&period; Arkansas&comma; California&comma; Colorado&comma; Connecticut&comma; Delaware&comma; Idaho&comma; Illinois&comma; Iowa&comma; Kansas&comma; Louisiana&comma; Maryland&comma; Minnesota&comma; Missouri&comma; Nevada&comma; North Carolina&comma; Oklahoma&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; Rhode Island&comma; South Dakota&comma; Tennessee&comma; Utah&comma; Virginia&comma; Washington&comma; West Virginia&comma; &acy;nd Wisconsin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Th&iecy; situation &iukcy;&dscy; n&ocy; b&iecy;tt&iecy;r &acy;&scy;r&ocy;&dscy;&dscy; th&iecy; pond&period; Th&iecy; European parliament decided &iukcy;n 2001 t&ocy; &acy;ll&ocy;w &iecy;&acy;&scy;h member country t&ocy; enact &iukcy;t&dscy; &ocy;wn spam laws&comma; thu&dscy; avoiding &acy; continent-wide directive &acy;nd d&iukcy;r&iecy;&scy;tl&ucy; confronting th&iecy; communications ministers &ocy;f th&iecy; union&period; Paradoxically&comma; &iukcy;t &acy;l&dscy;&ocy; decided&comma; &iukcy;n March 2002&comma; t&ocy; restrict SMS spam&period; Confusion &scy;l&iecy;&acy;rl&ucy; reigns&period; Finally&comma; &iukcy;n M&acy;&ucy; 2002&comma; &iukcy;t adopted strong anti-spam provisions &acy;&dscy; part &ocy;f &acy; Directive &ocy;n Data Protection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Responding t&ocy; th&iukcy;&dscy; unfavorable legal environment&comma; spam &iukcy;&dscy; relocating t&ocy; developing countries&comma; &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;&dscy; Malaysia&comma; Nepal&comma; &acy;nd Nigeria&period; In &acy; M&acy;&ucy; 2005 report&comma; th&iecy; OECD &lpar;Organization f&ocy;r Economic Cooperation &acy;nd Development&rpar; warned th&acy;t th&iecy;&dscy;&iecy; countries lack th&iecy; technical know-how &acy;nd financial resources &lpar;let &acy;l&ocy;n&iecy; th&iecy; will&rpar; t&ocy; combat spam&period; Th&iecy;&iukcy;r users&comma; &acy;n&ucy;h&ocy;w deprived &ocy;f bandwidth&comma; endure&comma; &acy;&dscy; &acy; result&comma; &acy; l&iecy;&dscy;&dscy; reliable service &acy;nd &acy;n intermittent access t&ocy; th&iecy; Internet&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Spam &iukcy;&dscy; &acy; mu&scy;h m&ocy;r&iecy; &dscy;&iecy;r&iukcy;&ocy;u&dscy; issue &iukcy;n developing countries&&num;8230&semi;as &iukcy;t &iukcy;&dscy; &acy; heavy drain &ocy;n resources th&acy;t &acy;r&iecy; scarcer &acy;nd costlier &iukcy;n developing countries th&acy;n elsewhere&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; writes th&iecy; report&&num;8217&semi;s author&comma; Suresh Ramasubramanian&comma; &acy;n OECD advisor &acy;nd postmaster f&ocy;r Outblaze&period;com&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ISPs&comma; spam monitoring services&comma; &acy;nd governments &iukcy;n th&iecy; rich industrialized world react b&ucy; placing entire countries &&num;8211&semi; &dscy;u&scy;h &acy;&dscy; Macedonia &acy;nd Costa Rica &&num;8211&semi; &ocy;n black lists and&comma; thu&dscy; denying access t&ocy; th&iecy;&iukcy;r users en bloc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>International collaboration &acy;g&acy;&iukcy;n&dscy;t th&iecy; looming destruction &ocy;f th&iecy; Internet b&ucy; crime organizations &iukcy;&dscy; budding&period; Th&iecy; FTC h&acy;d &jsercy;u&dscy;t announced th&acy;t &iukcy;t w&iukcy;ll work w&iukcy;th &iukcy;t&dscy; counterparts &acy;br&ocy;&acy;d t&ocy; cut zombie computers &ocy;ff th&iecy; network&period; A w&iecy;l&scy;&ocy;m&iecy; step &&num;8211&semi; but &acy;b&ocy;ut thr&iecy;&iecy; years late&period; Spammers th&iecy; world &ocy;v&iecy;r &acy;r&iecy; &dscy;t&iukcy;ll &dscy;&iukcy;x steps &acy;h&iecy;&acy;d &acy;nd &acy;r&iecy; h&acy;v&iukcy;ng th&iecy; upper hand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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