Bounty Hunting for Spammers?

A fourth U.S. lawmaker threw her hat into the anti-spam ring this week, announcing planned legislation to combat the increasingly costly scourge of unsolicited e-mail. Previously opposed to measures limiting Internet use, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said Wednesday that she will introduce a bill that creates a bounty for identifying spammers.

The question surrounding the prospect of looming federal anti-spam regulation is not "if", but "how much?" Even lawmakers once resistant to wading into Internet regulation, such as Lofgren, are expressing the need to act quickly before the problem of spam outweighs the benefit of e-mail.

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