jax, an intersting link on the history of spam... for the favourite links section... American Scientist has a fine article by Brian Hayes summing up the history of spam and proposed measures to deal with it." http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-05Hayes.html A shorter article along the same lines is running at The Economist http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1734216