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Spam , or unsolicited bulk email is infuriating. They force advertising on you, misusing a service, your email account, that you already paid for. It steals your resources, like hard disk space, CPU cycles and bandwidth: You are paying for the delivery of this trash, like junk faxes, or telemarketing calls to your cell phone. It is estimated that 40% of an average ISPs bandwidth and processing power is wasted on spam. The cost is passed on to us, customers and corporations (costing almost $1000 per employee
If you ever published your address on the web, be it on Usenet groups or on your web page, you probably get 50 or more spams a day (to be conservative, and it is getting worse as we speak), because they blindly scan the web for anything resembling an email address. Contrary to what they say, free speech doesn't force us to hear what others have to say, to receive mail against our wishes, or to pay for it. Initial and necessary consent is absent. Spammers are parasites, they do not subsidize the services the
Free Anti Spam lists free resources available to help you fight back, whether with filtering technologies for your email client, like Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird , or utilities to help you report spam to authorities. You will also find some basic primers to help you avoid spam, and other articles on spam related nuisances such as spywares.
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