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UN Takes Aim At Spam Epidemic

clester writes "CNN reports 'The United Nations is aiming to bring a "modern day epidemic" of junk e-mail under control within the next two years by standardizing legislation around the world to make it easier to prosecute spammers, a leading expert said Tuesday.' The full story reports that as much as 85 percent of all e-mail may be categorized as spam and that the problem is rapidly spreading to cell phones in the form of text messages..."

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  1. Re:war on spam by EugeneK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And then a year after the war is over, we'll find that there was no spam after all, only spam-related program activities.

  2. Re:war on spam by Blaskowicz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And the US will lie to the whole world about weapons of mass spamming in order to invade a 3rd world country with vast oil fields.

  3. Re:In typical UN fashion... by blackula · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yhbt yhl hand, additionally :)