Thirty years ago today, the first unsolicited commercial e-mail went out over the research network that was the Internet's predecessor - and the modern aggravation of spam was born. That e-mail, sent to advertise a new machine from the now-defunct comput

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Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites that disseminate child pornography in the United States.

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