Whenever I write a column of this sort, I wonder if some of those spammers might just want to make a concerted effort to go after me, just to show “that old so and so” how powerful they really are. But it’s a casual thought, and not an active part of any paranoiac instincts. At [...]

The other day I read the results of a study concluding that people were receiving more email spam, but have grown more accustomed to the scourge of the Internet. After getting those annoying offers for sexual enhancements, questionable penny stocks and so forth and so on, many simply consider it the price you pay for [...]