Seattle Times: Six lawsuits target 'biggest, baddest, most notorious' spammers

The 'Big 4'

The uniting of the Internet big foursome, Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink and Yahoo on a series of anti-spam enforcement actions stole many headlines yesterday, spam clearly being on the minds of many annoyed readers.

Direct Marketing Association (DMA) CEO H. Robert Wientzen jumped on the bandwagon, telling the AP that this shows that the new anti-spam law works. The DMA just a few months ago was arguing that many of these unwanted emails do not constitute "spam," and that the law should apply only to fraudulent offers.