Tech Companies Urge FTC to Take Action on Spam

The global war on junk e-mail has signed up some new supporters -- an alliance of 35 companies and organizations that are uniting to make their concerns known to the Federal Trade Commission. In an open letter to Deborah Majoras, chairwoman of the FTC, the signatories, which include Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, CipherTrust, EarthLink, eBay, Microsoft, Symantec and VeriSign, call for a more rapid rollout of e-mail authentication technologies.