it is BAD...some of the major spammers are well known and arrogantly defiant...(I saw an interview with one the other day...he is in New Orleans). They all want to claim some inalienable 'right' to do business. BS!

I know it will be hard to find some of them, who operate from foreign ISPs, but I want it regulated in such a way that you must specifically opt IN to mailing lists....and I want JAIL terms for those who try to get around it. Too harsh for 'victimless crimes'? Pshaw....ANYTHING that clogs the arteries of the internet this way and costs 10 billion in lost productivity is prima facie a crime!

When I got back from Mystic (5 days) I had 92 emails, of which 3 were something I wanted! Even with my trick of deleting them from the server before downloading them, it takes TIME to look at 92 headers and make decisions.

There is this newly touted system of making the sender of legitimate email respond with an 'ok' in order to have it delivered, but I have already seen one software designer who flatly says he gets too many questions and traffic to deal with each message twice, and will NOT accept questions using that system....and I see his point!

Spam MUST be stopped....I suggest a SERIOUS campaign to Congress, asking for laws 3 times as tough as a few states have tentatively adopted...with penalties that mince no words....

What, me? Opinionated?...naaawwww