This white paper discusses key definitions and operative language used in some of the anti-spam bills currently pending before the U.S. Congress and provides a methodology for discussing spam based on five categories of characteristics - spam as "unsolicited", "commercial" messages, sent in "bulk" as "electronic messages" across a "public network".
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