Join the Fight Against SPAM!!

Join the Fight Against SPAM!

SPAM! It´s everywhere! It clogs your email in-box. It shows up in newsgroups you read. It cost you wasted time and even more important, it costs you money!

That´s right, even if you have an unlimited access Internet account, SPAM costs you money, right out of your pocket.

It has been estimated that up to 30% of all email traffic is SPAM. So whatever the monthly fee for your unilimted access, it is higher because:

Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) needs more servers space to store those messages.
Your ISP must pay actual real people to handle SPAM complaints.
Your ISP is in business to make a profit, so it passes the costs of these activities on to you.

So even if you think "It´s no big deal, I just delete it," you are paying for the privilege of deleting it.

The very first think you can do to fight spam is never do business with SPAMMERs.

Even if there weren´t many fraudulent and dishonest SPAMMERs out there, and there surely are, trying to con you out of your money, how can you depend on the ethics and integrity of a business that uses an advertising method that it knows the vast majority of recipients dislikes? If you want to do even more in the fight against SPAM, there are plenty of resources on the Internet to help. I have included links below to sites with information, tools, and resources to help you fight SPAM.

abuse.net has been fighting SPAM since 1996, making it one of the older resources of it´s type. Articles include tutorials on filtering your email and complaining to the source of SPAM.

Recycle your spam - visit the

SPAM Recycling Center.

CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email is an ad hoc, all volunteer organization, created by Netizens to advocate for a legislative solution to the problem of UCE (a/k/a "spam").

Here are just some of the International participants in CAUCE.

Bookmark this page for more SPAM fighting links to come!