The theme of the conference set out key questions for the participants to discuss over the course of the three-day forum, these included:

The companies forged the agreement over the last few weeks in advance of a three-day forum on spam to be held by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington starting on Wednesday.

The newspaper executives spoke at a three-day forum for securities analysts sponsored by John E. Morton, an analyst at Lynch Jones & Ryan.

Several hundred prominent professors, artists, scientists and statesmen from the West have been invited to Moscow next weekend for a three-day forum on nuclear disarmament.

Many anti-spam proposals will be debated in a three-day forum on spam in Washington starting today.

"I see now how that policy works for them," he said after the three-day forum, "but on the other hand, I try to dispel their feelings that unions are worse than they really are."

Still, reality will be knocking on the door in the presence of representatives of some 1,000 non-governmental organizations, who held a three-day forum here to make their views known before the formal sessions begin.

At a three-day forum that just ended here on spam, sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission, there was a consensus that spam was increasing rapidly this year.

May 18 - A three-day forum on identity theft and fraud, including mob turncoat Michael Franzese as a guest speaker, is launched for police in the Gold Country Casino, Butte County, California.

Interested parties, including Montgomery, Winter, and Frame, were brought together for the three-day forum, but instead of reconciling different views of the battle, the forum only served to further split the participants.