More intrusive than telemarketers who call at dinnertime or the junk mail that floods our mailbox at home, Internet spam -- unsolicited commercial e-mail -- is growing faster than some networks can handle.
Many of us exacerbate the problem by treating our e-mail addresses as public information. We give them out to strangers, post them in chat rooms and fill out forms on virtually any Web site that asks for it. If we treated our e-mail addresses as we do our credit cards -- as useful tools that should be given out judiciously -- we could begin to stem the tide.
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