| Chief
Justice Berger, U.S. Supreme Court
"Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. We categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution, or otherwise, to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain." |
If you are fed up with having to delete dozens of unsolicited ads and porn Emails from your mailbox just to find the messages from friends and family, get involved in a world wide effort to put a stop to this flood of unwanted mail. If we don't protest it, it will just keep getting worse.
The Federal Trade Commission asks you to send them each and every spam Email you get. Before you forward your spam to the FTC, you will need to give them the full information regarding the origin of the message.
It is important to open up the headers on the spam you forward so that the reporting agencies will have ALL the information on where that spam came from. The return address is often a forgery, so the FTC needs the information in the FULL header.
In Netscape, click on VIEW
/ HEADERS / ALL. Then you are ready to forward it.
(To return to normal
headers, click
View / Headers / Normal.)
For all other Email applications, go to SpamCop for instructions.
Once you have the full header revealed, you can forward your spam to
Put these addresses in your address book. I set up a folder with these two addresses so that I could send all spam to both addresses with one forward.
Sites to visit for more information on what you can do about this annoying problem are: