Unfortunately, despite the greater annoyance, there may be less you can do to stop it. With junk paper mail, you can call or write the offending companies or even contact the mailing list resource companies and request that your name be removed. Return addresses and 1-800 phone numbers are clearly marked on the letters and catalogs cluttering your mailbox. With junk e-mail, however, your responses will most likely be bounced back to you because the return address is usually forged. As more people use the Internet for communication, spam will probably increase.
Many companies seem to embrace the idea of pushing their services on unwitting electronic consumers.
Though it is difficult to imagine anyone responding positively to this sort of advertising, it must be worth the angry mail and phone calls the offending companies receive because they continue to do it. Write or call the advertising company to complain, and request that your address be removed from their list. But ITS' authority extends only over colorado.edu addresses on the Boulder Campus. This hole primarily affects Microsoft Windows clients, but also affects Outlook Express clients for Unix. While there have been no recorded exploitations of this vulnerability, you should patch your applications.