Microsoft Corp. today announced the filing of seven lawsuits against defendants who allegedly sent spam e-mail that violated the CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) U.S. anti-spam law. Spam that contains sexually oriented content that is initially viewable in the e-mail violates provisions known as "brown paper wrapper" in the CAN-SPAM law and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules. The labeling provisions require sexually oriented e-mail solicitations to include the label "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in both the subject line and the initially viewable area of an e-mail message.
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