I’ve heard estimates that up to 80% of the daily email traffic is SPAM of some sort. SPAM stands for Self Promotional Advertising Method. Canter and Siegel, a husband-and-wife law firm, started this nightmare with a pitch to help immigrants to apply for a current government program called the Green Card Lottery in a Usenet newsgroup around April of 1994.

Even then this caused an absolute outcry for the two to be lynched. But, alas, that never happened and here we are today dealing with an avalanche of unwanted email every day.

I really don’t mind some legitimate company sending me something that I might have an interest in buying. I am on many email lists for companies I do buy from whom send me new offers and information I want. But receiving 100’s of unsolicited offers for crap is not a good thing.

But there are some good options that you have to help slow this unending surge of absolute worthless stream of emails. We have three software packages that can help you deal with SPAM (SpamBayes, SpamPal, and MailWasher). They are listed in the Internet Category.