Reuters: AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, Yahoo File Anti-Spam Suit

Four of the largest Internet companies filed a massive Can-Spam suit against hundreds of alleged spammers today. The act indicates that the firms - normally quite competitive with one another - are finding spam an important enough enemy to marshal their forces together. It also indicates that they believe there is some hope that the Can-Spam Act, which came into effect at the beginning of this year, may actually provide some useful recourse.