FTC cracks down on porn spam

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Five companies to pay $1.16 million to settle charges of sending spam without the phrase "Sexually Explicit" in subject line.

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I want FTC to
by 201293546946733175101343322673 July 20, 2005 3:37 PM PDT: filter out my "get rich quick" spam emails as well; Reply to this comment

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