CAUCE North America Debuts - New anti-spam advocacy group combines CAUCE
Canada and CAUCE US

Montreal and Los Angeles, June 06, 2007 -- Neil Schwartzman, chair of CAUCE
Canada, and Scott Hazen Mueller, chair of CAUCE U.S., today announced the
formation and launch of CAUCE North America to build upon the work of their
previously separate organizations.

CAUCE North America is now the premiere anti-spam advocacy group,
representing the interests of the millions of Internet users in North
America. The combined group will work towards equitable solutions for the
original threat posed by spam since the 20th century, and Spam 2.0, the
21st-century blended threat posed by the merging of spam, viruses, phishing
and malware.

"When we launched the original CAUCE, back in 1997," said Scott Hazen
Mueller, founder of CAUCE U.S. and now President of CAUCE North America,
"spam was an isolated problem and it was seen by many as unimportant. Now,
spam is part of a multi-pronged assault by various criminal organizations
attacking the very basis of trust on the Internet. If this threat is not
met soon, users will continue to migrate away from the Internet for their
commercial needs."

press contact: press@cauce.org

Tel . +1 303 800 6345

We were shocked, not so very many years ago, when AOL reported that spam was 30% of their incoming mail. Now, some of the world's largest ISPs report that it's well beyond 80% -- in some cases higher -- and increasing.

Back then we knew who the spammers were, they stayed in one place and thought of themselves as "high volume" email marketers -- but now, the leaders of the email marketing industry know they must respect permission, and can't engage in the spammy behavior of their predecessors. We predicted that a private right of action in civil court would be sufficient to keep those same marketers in line, and now we know that's correct -- but today, much of the spam volume is sent by career criminals and malicious hackers who won't stop until they're all rounded up and put in jail.