Nearly five months after con-gress passed a law to reduce the number of junk e-mail messages flooding the nation's in-boxes, industry experts widely agree that the opposite has occurred; Americans are getting more spam than ever. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 is widely viewed, even by top policy-makers, as a positive but inadequate measure, according to officials. Lawmakers and industry representatives are now placing greater hope in the private sector's ability to develop technologies, such as filtering and authentication tools, to stem the spam tide. Nonetheless, with every advance in technology, there is a counterad-vance by spammers to evade it, experts warn.
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