Bill Nelson: “I am compelled to share again with my colleagues the brief remarks I had made this morning about an experience I had…”

“I am compelled to share again with my colleagues the brief remarks I had made this morning about an experience I had yesterday in my Tampa office. Having opened up the office from the weekend, our employees in the Tampa office went into their e-mail account for the Senate. What they found was their e-mail mailbox was filled with unwanted junk, so much so that one of my employees in the Washington office talks about the unwanted e-mail junk, including pornography, that comes to the Senate office in Washington. In the course of the day's activities, it takes her some 45 minutes to clean up this unwanted e-mail. We are already seeing the statistics that it is upwards of 45 and 50 percent now of an average person's e-mail that is unwanted. Therefore, the normal course of commerce of e-mail, this new and wonderful mechanism for instant and cost-effective communication, is being denied to our everyday consumers because their e-mail mailbox is so cluttered and, in fact, is imposed on them.”