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SC242 - By SAUL HANSELLUnwanted e-mail advertising has become the latest quality-of-lifenuisance -- not unlike squeegee men -- that politicians love to attack.This spring, a consensus on spam seemed to be emerging among House andSenate leaders, Internet service providers and the direct marketingindustry, which had dropped its objection to any regulation ofe-mail. Several bills were introduced, all narrowly focused onfraudulent e-mail that misrepresented the sender or the product forsale.Then a monkey wrench landed in this otherwise smooth legislativeprocess. In June, the Federal Trade Commission started collectingphone numbers from people who do not want to be called bytelemarketers. Phone solicitors who call numbers on the list, once ittakes effect in October, can be punished with large fines. Overnight,the do-not-call list became one of the most popular governmentinitiatives in recent memory, with people registering an average of amillion phone numbers a day in the first month.Suddenly, public support for a do-not-spam list began to build. A billto create such a registry, which had little support earlier thissummer when it was introduced by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democratof New York, is at the center of much of the spam debate inWashington.The direct marketers and their allies like Microsoft and AOL objectstrongly to a do-not-spam list. Spam is different from telephonemarketing, they say, because such a list would be expensive toadminister and could be vulnerable to computer hackers. Moreimportant, it would most likely restrict the sale of credit cards andDVD clubs by mainstream companies as much as miracle pills andget-rich-quick schemes from online hucksters.http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/11/technology/11SPAM.html
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