hen eating the entree.
             • Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people
             Reports this past month in both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal indicate that e-mail is no longer the cheap and reliable tool for communication it once was, thanks to spam. A July 28th article in New York Times went over the research used to determine how much time and money is wasted dealing with spam, and even the most conservative estimates are startling. (Cox 2003)
             Then a July 29th article in WSJ examined how spam blocking software, especially ISP side blocking like that used by AOL, is seriously hampering legitimate e-mail from reaching people. So internet users get all these messages they don't want and don't get the messages they do want to. E-Mail may cease to exist if something is not done to fix it.
             At the moment, between hackers, illegal file sharers, spammers, and the ever growing porn industry, illicit activity is ruining the Internet for everybody. The unreliability of E-Mail is just the beginning, it will eventually spread to become an unreliable DNS system that may make it harder to surf the web without ending up in places you do not want to go. What all this adds up to is that the Internet is seriously broken and needs a major upgrade. After that we may as well declare the Internet dead. (Cox 2003)
             As far as I'm concerned this is sound like an overbroad and pessimist statement.
             It is true that E-mail is the victim of its own backward economics. Anyone can send a message to anyone else postage due; the sender pays almost nothing, while the recipient pays in time and money to download and read the message. With that kind o
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