Microsoft sues almost 200 spammers
Monday, 14 June 2004 17:03 EST
In the latest stage of its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits over the last two weeks, accusing almost 200 alleged spammers of breaches of the recently implemented CAN-SPAM Act, according to reports. The suits allege that the spammers have breached requirements of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act by using false and deceptive headers and subject lines; having no unsubscribe facility in their e-mails, and using open proxies (sending spam through third-party computers to disguise their point of origin).
E-mail software company MX Logic measured compliance with CAN-SPAM at just 1% of spam during the month of May, down from 3% in April, based on samples of up to 10,000 spam e-mails each week. In the past month, it also found that only 15% of pornographic unsolicited e-mails complied with a new FTC rule requiring such spam to be labelled "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in the subject line.
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