seofan - 3:27 am on Apr 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

Dang Chiyo.....only 300 spams....? You're getting off light
Truly - these tools are a major help to those of us who do business on the web. I get an average of 800-1000 spam messages a day. It took me about $100 to $150 dollars a day of billable time to get to the 20 emails that Chiyo also got to----that were "important". This is a real invasion on our business operations.

I know that attempts to bill email time have failed for the most part - however - new approaches have surfaced.

If you send a documented email and send a copy to a third party notifying the spammer that they accept your consulting terms of 50.00/per hour with a 1 hour minimum any time an email contact is received from them, and any further contact is acknowledgement of that agreement, then you have half a leg to stand on. A good friend of mine used that and got an apology letter plus some non-monetary considerations for the spam onslaught from that co. after that notification. It takes due diligence and perserverance.......but it is winning a small battle in the middle of a big war.

Small battles are well won though. Have to briefly mention a spam I got just this past Friday. Child intimate abuse (can't say the "p" word, it gets *** out). Me...the mother of twin 10 year old girls and a 12 year old boy.....well. I can't describe the outrage. To my business email at that!!!

Long story short...I researched their domains, owners, URLs, payment processors, etc. and got down to business of giving the guys at the FBI the info they needed to end this in short order. I checked their URL yesterday. The FBI homepage popped proudly up. So goes thorough research and perserverance <flag waving>.