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[Mass] Senate approves bill designed to curb junk e-mail: The state Senate overwhelming approved a bill Thursday to require businesses that send out commercial e-mail to put the letters ''ADV,'' for advertisement, in the e-mail's subject line. This is just not the right way to do this. Any commercial email? So that means that anything my company sends to its double-opt-in-only mailing list will have to include the "ADV" tag? So this will mean users have the choice of filtering on "ADV" and thereby receiving absolutely no commercial mail -- even from vendors they want to hear from -- or, they are stuck just like now with a deluge of mixed spam and solicited email. California's law is better -- just make unsolicited email illegal, and let lawsuits take care of the rest. It worked for faxes.