AFP reports that two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text messages on mobile devices.
The m-SPAM Act of 2009 is intended to crack down on what the senators described as a "growing nuisance for millions of wireless customers."
Apparently, they plan to link mobile phone numbers in the Do Not Call Registry to SMS spam as well. There isn't much more, but you can find it here.
Thanks to Josh Janicek from UnsubCentral for bringing this to my attention!
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