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"'Things are worse than we imagined,' said Eileen Harrington, the Federal Trade Commission's director of marketing practices. 'There is consensus that the problem has reached a tipping point. If there are not immediate improvements implemented across the board by technologists, service providers and perhaps lawmakers, e-mail is at risk of being run into the ground.'" Link to AP story

However, Congress is "moving" to fix the problem. Link to AP story