See Full StoryFew things are more annoying than opening your inbox and finding dozens of solicitations for credit cards, weight loss products and other goods and services.
Unfortunately, no national law exists outlawing or regulating spam. Instead, spam is regulated by "a patchwork of state laws of varying degrees of effectiveness," according to Allen Hile, assistant director of the division of marketing practices for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Hile told the E-Commerce Times, "It's difficult for people operating on the Net to follow 50 sets of rules."
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