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Canning spam

Tools, strategies and legal efforts for eradicating unsolicited email - plus advice on how to ensure legitimate email marketing remains both legal and welcome

Written by IT Week

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From a troubling one-in-a-hundred nuisance at the start of 2002, the volume of unsolicited messages has soared to take up over half of all incoming email at the end of 2003. Spam has become a problem that corporate IT departments - and indeed governments - cannot afford to ignore. Unfortunately, spam is a global problem and there are no simple solutions for eradicating it.

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