I've never gotten an e-mail spam, but i've heard of friends and family who wern't as lucky.............

Spam should be made illegal. It's annoying and can damage harddrives. If it is already legal withoug my knowing so, then they should tighten up online security, or crack down on those who are caught harder than they already do.

Curt, I agree spam is something that needs to be addressed. But in the overall scheme of Internet abuse, we have to really consider more damaging actions. The invasion of private home or business computers, the insiduous self-installing programs (including spyware, adware, viruses) and even hostile takeover for controlling the running processes or forcing shutdowns/denial of services should be policed and prosecuted more strenously.

There are blacklists which circulate to help the providers cut down on various kinds of misuse, but spam isn't the worst thing to wake up to in the morning.