Article: The UCE [Spam) war and its impact on e-mail: This essential foundation of the Internet is under attack. (On the Net).(unsolicited commercial email)

The Internet's killer application is not Web browsers. It is e-mail. Communication capabilities have become so interwoven into most of our work--and home--lives that it is sometimes difficult to remember how we managed to function without it. And younger generations never knew.

This essential foundation of the Internet is under attack. Sending e-mail is so easy. Millions of e-mail addresses are readily available. Combine these two concepts, and e-mail becomes an obvious direct marketing campaign. Unsolicited e-mail messages--hawking everything from mortgages to online casinos to unknown stocks to Nigerian banking scams--have proliferated. These messages fall ...

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