[T]he amount of junk e-mail out there hasn't fallen, but since the peak of the furor two years ago, there's been one huge change when it comes to spam: For many ordinary e-mail users, it has ceased to matter.I still get it, especially on the web-based e-mail addresses that I have at Hotmail and Yahoo!, but most of the spam that comes through my Outlook 2007 gets blocked or dumped into my junk-mail folder. I check it every so often just in case a note from a real correspondent goes in there; that happens now that I've had to reinstall my e-mail after the computer crash. And a lot of times I get a chuckle out of some of the mail offering to enlarge my manhood, elicit my assistance in getting gold out of Iraq, or the great news that my e-mail address has won the "Microword" lottery. I also make the small effort to forward the more pathetic phishing attempts to the banks or PayPal that try to tell me about numerous attempts to access my account from "overseas" addresses. The most ingenious one I've heard of, forwarded from my brother, was an e-mail from the Nigerian Internal Security Forces who were trying to catch spammers and wanted to verify the account information I had sent to the spammers.
So the question is,
How much spam do you get? What do you do with it?
