This unwanted and unsolicited bulk email consists of advertising, e-newsletters, pornography, chain letters and more and often contains viruses or malicious code. The cost to businesses is astronomical and has been doubling each year. Ferris estimates that Spam unnecessarily cost US corporations $8.9 billion in 2002, and Gartner concludes that the monthly per-user Spam cost is a whopping $108. The new federal anti-spam law recognizes the problem, but nobody expects it to solve the crisis.

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