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Like many other antispam advocates, Barrett prefers the model of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, which effectively put an end to junk faxes by allowing consumers to sue senders at a rate of up to $500 for every unsolicited fax. California is expected to pass a bill that would do the same thing for unwanted e-mails sent to or from any computer in the state. It would also require spammers to use only opt-in lists for their targets. The problem? It's just one state, and 28 other states have entirely different antispam laws...
...your fingers tired of deleting the daily influx of junk e-mail one message at a time? Don't despair. Most services that provide Internet or Web-based e-mail also offer free tools that will take out the trash for you (although if you're not careful, they will throw birth announcements out with the bath water). If you need something a little more discriminating, there is plenty of software you can buy that will help you filter your own mail. There's still no such thing as a 100% spam-free In box, but if you're willing...
...subscribers, MSN's Version 8 provides system-wide filters that are smart enough to intercept a fair percentage of incoming junk mail before it lands in your In box. The junk is deposited into a separate folder from which you can retrieve messages that shouldn't have been blocked. True to its geeky heritage, Microsoft provides tools for custom filtering that offer users more flexibility than AOL's mail controls, though AOL is busy playing catch...
...people listed in your address book or from domains you put on your safe list (newsletters you subscribe to, websites you've shopped at, etc.). You can have spam deleted immediately, but if you've chosen the most aggressive filtering option, you'll probably want to set up a junk-mail folder that you can scan for false positives (then retrieve them with a click of the THIS IS NOT JUNK button). Warning: if you maintain a junk-mail folder, those messages will count against your 2-MB storage limit...
Don’t read every story in the paper that has “Harvard” in it. Don’t buy the books with titles like Inside the Ivy Gates. Don’t read every piece of junk mail that comes from various Harvard organizations to your mailbox. Don’t talk to every person at the party who went to Harvard or had a friend there. And for Pete’s sake don’t donate millions of dollars. You (or somebody you’re now indebted to) already paid...