New state law could help curb junk e-mail

Spam -- unsolicited electronic junk mail -- is a serious problem. Come-ons for prescription drugs, chatrooms, credit cards and other dubious deals now constitute more than two-thirds of all global e-mails, one monitoring group reports, and the cost in pirated server time and Internet traffic slowdowns is reported to be in the billions of dollars.

This year, Florida legislators finally got serious about spam. The law signed last week by Gov. Jeb Bush isn't nearly strong enough -- a flaw shared by the much-ballyhooed federal CAN-SPAM legislation. But it does give state officials an opening to go after e-mail hucksters who gleefully divert other people's resources for their own profit.
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