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...VINCE FOSTER'S PHYSIcal appearance deteriorated. His weight had gone up as he'd responded to the pressures of the office by eating more junk food and exercising less, but now it dropped. He got a prescription for sleeping pills, but then refused to take them, saying he was afraid he'd become addicted...
...Barry Manilow fan club, a Mercedes-owners discussion group, a Fiji Islands--appreciation society and 103 other Internet mailing lists I'd never heard of. I knew from experience that any one of these lists can generate 50 messages a day. To avoid a deluge of junk E-mail, I painstakingly unsubscribed from all 106--even Barry Manilow's--only to log on Monday morning and discover I'd been subscribed overnight to 1,700 more. My file of unread E-mail had swelled to 16 megabytes, and was growing by the minute...
...heard about "spam"--Internet jargon for machine-generated junk mail--and over the years I'd received my share of E-mail chain letters, get-rich-quick pitches and cheesy magazine ads. But I had never experienced anything like this: a parade of mail that just got bigger and bigger, like Mickey's brooms in Fantasia. Not only was I getting hundreds of subscription notices, but I was also receiving copies of every piece of mail posted to those lists. By Monday the E-mail was pouring in at the rate of four a minute, 240 an hour...
...both cases, the sender has expended a measure of effort to convey his message, and in both cases, recipients have been compelled to expend some effort acknowledging and disposing of the message. In daily life, we accept this principle: junk mail sometimes annoys us, but it is not illegal. We can take measures to prevent it, but its receipt usually imposes no cost other than time...
...enough junk mail in your mailbox," said Anthony L. DeWitt '96. "If they want to advertise for a concert, they should just post...