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Parents Find Sexually Explicit Spam Hard to Avoid despite Blockers, Laws.

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Date: Sunday, December 14 2003

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 14--Nothing ticks off e-mail users like raunchy spam. It simply undoes parents like Jill Still.

The Stone Mountain mother has a software program to protect her 10-year-old son from offensive material on the Internet. But the program doesn't catch the pitches for the Teenage Cheerleaders XXX video and other sordid products that invade her in box.

"Being that the computer is in the family room, he can read what I get," said Still, 44. "It would embarrass me if my little

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