The latest bill designed to curtail the unsolicited junk e-mail known as spam has been revised by a House Judiciary Committee, weakening its original aggressive stance against spammers. Specifically, the committee cut provisions that gave consumers the right to sue companies that fail to remove their names from bulk e-mail lists. The revised bill will now move to the House Rules Committee, which will determine whether this new version, or a more stringent version approved by the Energy and Commerce Committee in March, will make it to the full House.

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