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LOOKING FOR CE? GO TO ADA.ORG
Did you know The Journal of the American Dental Association’s popular continuing education program has been available online at ADA.org since January?

The JADA Online CE module, accessible at "www.ada.org/goto/jadace", provides for complete online testing, submission, grading and payment, offering up to two credits each month.

Use the online test forms to select answers to the CE questions for the four articles designated as CE vehicles from each issue of JADA. Hyperlinks on the test forms provide access to the full text of each article. ADA members must be registered for members-only content on ADA.org to receive the discounted member participation rate of $15 per submission. The fee for nonmembers is $20.

After reviewing your answers, click the "Submit" button to forward your test to the University of Colorado’s JADA CE Web site. From there, you can pay the participation fee with a credit card via secure server technology and instantly receive a grade for your test. Confirmation of your grade also will be sent by e-mail and postal mail.

The University of Colorado School of Dentistry is an ADA Continuing Education Recognized Provider and Academy of General Dentistry–recognized continuing education provider, and it has been partnering with JADA to provide CE since 1995.

With hundreds of tests already taken using the JADA Online CE module, the feedback from members has been positive. Dr. David C. Gjedde, a general dentist from Morristown, Tenn., who has been participating in the JADA CE program since 1996, was the first to use the new module and has taken tests online each month since.

"I have been using computers for 13 years and do everything I can online," Dr. Gjedde said. "Being able to do CE online is a real plus to a person like myself, but I feel the system would be easy to use for a novice also."

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS SUE ALLEGED SPAMMERS
If your e-mail in-box is overflowing with unsolicited commercial e-mail, better known as "spam," help may be on the way. In March, four of the largest Internet service and e-mail providers in the United States filed suit against hundreds of defendants suspected of being spammers for alleged violations of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, or CAN-SPAM, Act.

America Online joined EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo! in filing a combined six lawsuits in federal courts in California, Georgia, Virginia and Washington state charging the defendants with sending "a combined total of hundreds of millions of bulk spam e-mail messages" in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act, an AOL news release said.

The CAN-SPAM Act outlaws, among other things, the use of falsified or disguised "from" e-mail addresses, deceptive subject lines and disguised routing information, and it requires a valid return address and mechanism for declining future communications in each message. (For more about the CAN-SPAM Act, see the March 2004 edition of CyberNews.)

"We’re holding spammers directly accountable for the relentless infiltration of people’s in-boxes," said Yahoo! senior vice president and general counsel Mike Callahan. "We’re acting on behalf of the millions of people who are saying ‘enough is enough.’ "

Reported by Joe Hoyle, electronic media editor, "hoylej{at}ada.org".

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