The U.S. Senate Wednesday passed a bill regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail and allowing fines as large as US$3 million for some types of illegal spam. The Senate voted 97-0 to approve the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act on Wednesday after a compromise among members of the Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee allowed an amendment authorizing a federal agency to launch a national do-not-spam registry. [
MacCentral]