California to fine spammers.(Brief Article)

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INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD California has introduced new legislation that will see the state begin to punish companies that send spam e-mails with fines of up to GBP600,000. The legislation targets the companies that send unsolicited marketing e-mails together with the companies that advertise their products or services ......

HEADNOTE Lawyers Say Junk E-Mail Laws Don't Work Lawyers say the new federal law targeting unsolicited "junk" e-mail doesn't have much bite. Called the "Controlling the Assault of NonSolicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003," the law levies criminal and civil penalties for tactics used by so-called "spammers," or senders ......

A full 22% of all permission-based e-mail was blocked by the top Internet service providers (ISPs) during 2004, according to a Return Path study. Corporate e-mail mistakenly considered spam by ISPs is a growing problem, up 3.3% over the second half of 2003, noted Return Path. Return Path monitored 50,000 ......

Patti Wysocki, executive director of the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association, urged U.S. newsletter publishers to lobby their representatives in the House to pass a relatively reasonable bill that would preempt more restrictive state laws. "Congress is now in the throes of creating a unified federal law regulating the practice ......

Ferris Research says spare will cost U.S. businesses at least $10 billion in 2003. Nucleus Research estimates that companies lose $874 per employee annually in lost productivity alone due to spam. Spam now accounts for 40 to 60 percent of most organizations' e-mail traffic. But help is on the way....

Ferris Research says spam will cost U.S. businesses at least $10 billion in 2003. Nucleus Research estimates that companies lose $874 per employee annually in lost productivity alone due to spam. Spam now accounts for 40 to 60 percent of most organizations' e-mail traffic. But help is on the way....

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Interview with Lee Odden, AllBusiness.com's Internet marketing advisor.

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Beyond CAN-SPAM:  The Nightmare Continues Turn back the clock to the end of 2003.  A bunch of states had recently passed their own anti-spam bills, and California had just passed the then-notorious SB186.  Commercial emailers were freaking out because compliance with a patchwork of state laws for email is ......

Small Business Q&A I use Aweber for my autoresponders and newsletter. I have a lot of names on a lot of email marketing lists. What I don't have with Aweber, though, is my database of customers. Aweber won't let me import my customer list without opt in mailing list ......

One of the world's most notorious email spammers, Alan Ralsky, has finally been indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit.

Book Short:  More on Email Marketing My friend Bill Nussey's The Quiet Revolution in Email Marketing is a good read for those in the industry.  It's a little different in focus than our recently published book, Sign Me Up! , and in many ways is a good complement.  Bill ......