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...screen names). One address is just for friends, family and work; the other is for public stuff, such as chat rooms or registering for software at websites. Be sure to check out the online resources that battle spammers. For AOLers, the best place to go is keyword JUNKMAIL. Or send complaints to tosspam@aol.com Web folks should go to www.ybecker.net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can That Spam! | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...work at a newspaper, and if you dislike the few items of junkmail that turn up each day in your mailbox, you should see the baskets of junkmail that we get at newspapers. There are announcements from banks, luring offers from syndication companies, free issues of socialist newletters, poetry, notices from credit card card companies prepared to honor various reporters with their very own American Express, and buckets of press releases crafted by the public relations industry to resemble news. After the news editor has combed out the few snippets of honest-to-goodness news from the pile, he hands...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: The Perils of Modern Publishing | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

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