After all the "do not call" lists, legislation, and other anti-spam initiatives that have been tried over the last few years, you'd think the spam problem would have gotten better and not worse. Unfortunately, the problem has grown to a point that many find it difficult to even do business (reliably) via electronic mail. Of course, part of the problem is that people continue to click on spam and the links within the spam message since there would be no market for spam if no one responded to it! And of course, many spammers don't follow the law, or worse, exploit it so that they include an "unsubscribe" link in the spam as required by law, but clicking on it does nothing but validate that your email really exists and puts you on even bigger spamming lists! Bottom line: never respond to spam, never click on "unsubscribe" links unless they relate to services that you know you signed up for, and never, ever click on links within a spam message! read more at steves-digicams.com