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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)
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- January 1, 2003
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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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Article: UCE MEMBERS COMPILE BOYCOTT LIST; THEY RECORD BUSINESSES ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
October 31, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... sovereignty policies that benefit the nation. UCE member Sylvester Ciotti, who helped put ... he said. Ward said he's angry that UCE members call for a boycott of local businesses ... businesses in Central New York. He criticized UCE members for putting together the boycott ...
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