there is a big difference between junk mail and coupons and telemarking calls and spam email. If someone is going to send out a big mailer to your house they have to pay to have it written, pay to have it printed and pay to mail it. This is all an expense to them so at least they are putting money into the economy when they junk mail me. Same with phone callers they have to pay to have the people there to call you and the costs of equiptment, phone bills ect. but spam anyone can do. Anyone can go to download.com and get a shareware email harvester then get an shareware bulk email program and hammer people with email spam. I usually don't care about it and just hit delete but it pisses me off when I get the same spam 26 times in one day or I keep getting spammed over and over and over by the same people and there is no way I can stop it. I went on a weeks vacation not too long ago and came home to 627 new emails of which about 50 of them were actual things I needed. The rest were just spam. We are all picking up the bill for this spam when we pay for our ISP service so that is why it sometimes pisses me off if I go to my mailbox and see junk mail I at least know someone had to pay to send that to just so I can toss it in the trash but every morning I get up to 15+ spam emails that I am paying to get
[This message has been edited by kane (edited 09-24-2001).]