Even bringing down someone labeled the "spam king" isn't going to stem the E-mail flood. Scott Richter has agreed to pay Microsoft $7 million to settle a lawsuit and pledged to stop sending unsolicited E-mails, but the spam sent out by Richter's company represented a mere 0.2% of all spam, according to Postini Inc., a spam-filtering service. "That's a drop in the bucket," says Andrew Lochart, Postini's senior director of marketing.
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