The part of spamming that gets to me is the fact that there is no way to seperate it from other messages. Spammers will send a message seemingly from 'mike@yahoo.com' with something like 'hello' in the subject field. There is no way to tell that the message is an advertisment. That would be the same as getting a letter in the mail in a plain envelope from 'john smith' and finding an advertisment inside (and the return address non-existant).
I think as a solution that advertisers should have to put either ADV or Advertisment into the subject line. I also think that they sould only be able to send mail with real reply addresses. Thay way you would have somewhere to reply to them, requesting that you want to be taken off their spamming list.
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The part of spamming that gets to me is the fact that there is no way to seperate it from other messages. Spammers will send a message seemingly from 'mike@yahoo.com' with something like 'hello' in the subject field. There is no way to tell that the message is an advertisment. That would be the same as getting a letter in the mail in a plain envelope from 'john smith' and finding an advertisment inside (and the return address non-existant).
I think as a solution that advertisers should have to put either ADV or Advertisment into the subject line. I also think that they sould only be able to send mail with real reply addresses. Thay way you would have somewhere to reply to them, requesting that you want to be taken off their spamming list.