Following issues such as world hunger and global warming, the rising volume of unwanted e-mail is now among the problems that are being dealt with on an international level as officials with the United Nations and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) called spam “an epidemic” at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland this week. Echoing the warnings from the computer industry, world leaders indicated that international cooperation is the only way to combat the sometimes pornographic, unsolicited messages that are repelling users from e-mail and the Internet.
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UN, ITU Join Fight Against Spam
Posted by: Jay Lyman July 7, 2004 12:09 PMFollowing issues such as world hunger and global warming, the rising volume of unwanted e-mail is now among the problems that are being dealt with on an international level as officials with the United Nations and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) called spam “an epidemic” at a conference in Geneva, Switzerland this week. Echoing the warnings from the computer industry, world leaders indicated that international cooperation is the only way to combat the sometimes pornographic, unsolicited messages that are repelling users from e-mail and the Internet.