Congress takes on 'spam'

By cnnfn.com

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - A House committee on Thursday scaled back legislation that aims to curb junk e-mail, or "spam," cutting out provisions that would allow consumers to sue companies that ignored requests to be taken off their mailing lists.

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That was also a major topic this week at SpamCon, an anti-spam conference in San Francisco, and Ted Gavin of Nachman Hays Consulting was one of the presenters.

He and Jennifer Mandigo of the Federal Trade Commission joined CNNfn's Bruce Francis on The N.E.W. Show with the latest developments.

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