Brussels, 15/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The proliferation of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or 'spam', has reached a point where it creates a major problem for the development of e-commerce and the Information Society. Businesses and individuals spend an increasing amount of time and money simply to clean up e-mailboxes. The loss in productivity for EU businesses has been estimated at 2.5 billion € for 2002. Also, experts believe that before the end of the summer, over 50 percent of global...