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JADA ONLINE FREE TRIAL PERIOD ENDS
As of last month, free access through JADA Online to full-text articles in The Journal of the American Dental Association from the past 12 months now is restricted to ADA members and JADA print subscribers only. The full text of articles more than one year old will continue to be available to all visitors.

ADA members who previously logged in to ADA.org to receive members-only content need do nothing further to continue receiving full-text JADA articles. Just follow the current procedure for accessing the full text of a selected article and choose the option that says "ADA Member Sign In" when asked to sign in. You will be prompted to enter a username, which is your ADA member number, and a password, which is your ADA.org members-only password.

If you have never registered for members-only access on ADA.org or need additional assistance in signing in, contact the ADA toll-free at Ext. 3553 (weekdays 8:30 A.M.– 5 P.M. Central Time) or send an e-mail to "mscpassword{at}ada.org". For more information about ADA. org members-only access, visit "www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/logging_on.asp".

JADA readers with personal subscriptions and organizations with institutional subscriptions must establish an account through High-Wire, the company that hosts JADA Online, to claim their subscription rights. For more information, go to "http://jada.ada.org/subscriptions/".

JADA Online visitors who are neither ADA members nor subscribers can purchase access to individual articles from the last 12 months on a pay-per-view basis.

GOOD NEWS ABOUT SPAM
In March, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the largest fine levied to date for sending unsolicited e-mail in violation of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act.

According to the FTC, San Francisco-based Jumpstart Technologies LLC signed a consent decree agreeing to pay a $900,000 civil penalty and is prohibited permanently from its unlawful spam practices. The FTC’s complaint alleged that in its FreeFlixTix promotion, Jumpstart violated the law by disguising its commercial e-mails as personal messages and by misleading consumers with regard to the terms and conditions of the promotion.

Also in March, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictments of four people on charges of running an "advance-fee" scheme targeting victims in the United States using e-mail.

The alleged scheme, which probably will sound familiar to many readers, involved sending spam e-mail to potential victims in which the senders falsely claimed to have control of millions of dollars belonging to a terminally ill person located in a foreign country, often Nigeria.

The targeted victims were asked to help distribute the funds to charity for which they would receive a substantial payment, though they were told they first must pay a variety of advance fees. Victims of the scheme have lost more than $1.2 million, the Justice Department said.

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

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