BBC NEWS | Technology | US 'winning war' on e-mail spam

BBC NEWS | Technology | US 'winning war' on e-mail spam: "The number of unsolicited e-mails received in the US appears to be falling thanks to new laws and better technology, a government report says.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said internet users still disliked spam - but most got less than two years ago.
Spam filters and a 2003 US law allowing people to opt out of future mailings were helping cut the problem, it said.
However, the report warned spammers were improving their technology and the number of e-mail scams had risen.
The US CAN-Spam legislation (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) was introduced in the US in January 2004.
The FTC said a survey by e-mail filtering firm MX Logic found spam accounted for 67% of traffic through its system for the first eight months of 2005 - a 9% drop from a year earlier.
Time Warner's internet unit AOL reported a 75% fall in spam received by its members from 2003 to 2004, the report added."