The nation's first federal law regulating spam, called the Can-Spam Act, took effect Jan. 1, 2004, and set off a string of lawsuits and new state regulations criminalizing unsolicited bulk e-mail. The
year also marked the 10th anniversary of the first spam message, in what continues to be a serious threat to the efficacy of e-mail.
Read the whole story at Cnet, December 21, 2004
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