Wednesday, May 01, 2002

"Bulk e-mail providers will send a company's ad to one million e-mail addresses for as little as $200,

Innocent 'Hello' Sells Hot Sex on the Internet
Sat Apr 27,12:13 PM ET

By Andrea Orr

PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=2&cid=581&u=/nm/20020427/tc_nm/column_nettrends_dc_26

"Bulk e-mail providers will send a company's ad to one million e-mail addresses for as little as $200,

and consumers have to date been mildly annoyed but not really outraged. Regulators, meanwhile, have gone after only the most egregious forms of e-mail deception."

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