Three Web sites that provide spam blocking lists have shut down as a result of crippling Internet attacks in what experts said is an escalation in the war between spammers and opponents of unsolicited e-mails. Anti-spam experts suspect that spammers are behind the attacks, although they have no way of proving it. Congress is currently considering a federal anti-spam law.
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