The opinions expressed by the author are his own and not necessarily those of Verio Inc. or of the ABA's Section of Law Practice Management and its membership. The American Bar Association. It is hard to imaging a topic that people feel more passionately about than unsolicited e-mail. Proponents point to the prevalence of direct mail in the postal system and claim First Amendment rights.
Opponents claim that time and money is being spent and wasted.
But I will leave the debates about the rightness or wrongness of spam to others. And just as you may not want to know what goes into the luncheon meat Spam, you might get a little squeamish seeing what's in this spam. So here you have it. My first annual state of the spam column. But I don't really notice it anymore, because I have developed a series of e-mail filters to automatically dispose of most of it.