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Spammers Can Run but They Can't Hide

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TAGGS ISLAND, England AS Steve Linford walks his German shepherd, Zen, across the gangway from his houseboat into his prim little garden on this small island in the Thames, he hardly looks like a man in a battle over the future of cyberspace. He has a salt-and-pepper beard and a twinkle in his blue eyes, but the effect is more former hippie than Sean Connery.

After Zen gives a good bark at the ducks, the two return to the boat, and Mr. Linford climbs a spiral staircase into a sunny home office with nine computer screens piled on a black desk. This is the unlikely command center for the Spamhaus Project, one of the leading groups that is trying to make the world safe from junk e-mail.

As a cause, stopping spam may not be as urgent as, say, curing AIDS. Yet thousands of activists, of whom Mr. Linford may be the most visible, have mobilized to fight it.

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