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I've become super-careful and sensitive to online security threats in recent years, through personal experience an those who I love. One question I have advanced is the wisdom of "unsubscribing" to various junk emails from senders who I have no idea how I've been connected to in the first place. Many of them are political emails, which I can understand, since these orgs get names from databases in political donations and party affiliations. I will readily unsubscribe from org e-mailings I'm familiar with, but what about mystery ones? I'm very reticent to click on ANY link without knowing exactly what...

The following is from the website of a junk emailer. -------------------- FYI-THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 100 MILLION UNIQUE E-MAIL ADDRESS IN THE NORTH AMERICA. OPTINBIG HAS ACCESS TO NEARLY HALF Here are some statistics and metrics by which we measure ourselves… OptInBig: • Possesses over 45 million online consumers in its database; • Has lists available with a reach from 500,000 to up to 45 million online consumers; • Sends out approximately 125 million e-mails per day and 700 million e-mails per week on behalf of its clients; • Produces over 20 million page views per month on our clients’ websites;...

Every person on the net has one thing in common. They all hate spam. E-mails offering Viagra via the net Anyone who has an e-mail account will have received these unsolicited commercial messages that offer you things you do not want, at prices you will not pay, from companies you will never call. 2002 was a bumper year for these messages and now 30% of all mail flying around the net is thought to be spam. Filtering firm Surf Control has compiled a list of the top 10 most annoying spam messages sent across the net in the last 12...

<p>"It's that simple," Ms. Betterly said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She had just dispatched e-mail messages to 500,000 strangers.</p> <p>If you call her she will tell you she only sends email to people who have opted in. But if this from a Wall Street Journal article about her operation is true, then she is responsible for many unsolicited emails from other spammers whose emails to you were generated from lists she has sold.</p>

Front Door | Entertainment & Media | Search | One Week View http://www.news.com Direct marketers want anti-spam laws By Declan McCullaghStaff Writer, CNET News.comOctober 21, 2002, 3:48 PM PThttp://news.com.com/2100-1023-962821.html The Direct Marketing Association said Monday that unsolicited e-mail has become so noxious that a federal anti-spam law is finally necessary. Until now, the DMA has opposed the majority of anti-spam bills in Congress or offered only lukewarm support. But the ever-rising tide of junk e-mail has made the influential trade association rethink its stand. "Even legitimate business' messages are not being looked at because of the get-rich-quick schemes and pornography and so forth," Jerry Cerasale,...