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The highest fine ever issued to an individual for violating the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation.

Inboxes were expected to be a little less overwhelming thanks to Canada's new spam law. The reaction on Twitter suggests otherwise.

Canadian-based offenders could face fines of up to $10 million. However, an industry analyst doubts the law on its own will have much effect on most people's inboxes

A recent report by a British computer security firm has placed the United States at the top of its list of 12 spam-relaying countries. While Canada didn't make it on Sophos Plc.'s Dirty Dozen catalogue, one e-commerce expert says the country is far from being squeaky clean.

For A.J. Byers, CEO at Magma Communications, an Internet service provider based in Ottawa, anti-spam legislation, either in Canada or the United States, will do little to curb the 24 million unsolicited e-mail messages that arrive at his business each month.

About 50 per cent of all e-mail received in Hong Kong is spam and could be costing the economy up to US$1.3 billion a...

About 50 per cent of all e-mail received in Hong Kong is spam and could be costing the economy up to HK$10 billion (US$1.3 billion) a year, according to survey findings released today by the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA).

The vote in your United States Senate was 97 to 0 - generally the kind of bipartisan unanimity reserved for proclamations supporting National Bran Muffin Month and the like.