Microsoft Corp., Time Warner Inc.’s
America Online, Yahoo! Inc. and EarthLink Inc. – the four
largest U.S. Internet mail providers – sued hundreds of bulk e-
mail senders under a new U.S. law designed to curb spam.
The six suits in California, Georgia, Virginia and
Washington state are the first filed under the “CAN-SPAM Act,”
which took effect Jan. 1, the companies said at a news conference
in Washington. The suits target spammers who send hundreds of
millions of unsolicited e-mails peddling such products as
virility pills, cheap loans and pornography.
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“We’re trying to hit the biggest, the baddest and the most
notorious,” AOL General Counsel Randall Boe said at a news
conference announcing the suit.
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