NTT Docomo Corp, a Japanese mobile phone carrier, won a victory against junk e-mail on Tuesday when a Tokyo court ordered compensation for the costs of sending unsolicited messages over its wireless Internet service, according to wire service reports.
In the first court decision against the country’s spam mailers, a Tokyo company was ordered to pay docomo 6.57 million yen ($54,420). These junk e-mailers regularly flood wireless e-mail networks with randomly addressed advertisements for pornography or dating services.
Anti-spam legislation implemented last July requires unsolicited e-mail be clearly labeled ” in the subject line. Docomo offers a service to let users reject such messages, but much still apparently gets through.
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