The book's content deserves the widest possible circulation, no matter whether your platform of choice is a Mac, PC or Unix workstation. I urge you to print this review in your newsletters, post it on your web sites and relay it to your fellow computer users, not because the review itself is important but because it calls attention to an important message. M ost of us know by now that Spam isn't just a Hormel canned meat product.
Some people merely regard it as a nuisance.
Unfortunately, Internet spam is much more than that. It poses a serious problem for the cyberspace community, one we should all recognize and work to combat. Authors Alan Schwartz and Simson Garfinkel have done an excellent job of explaining how and why spam is a major headache. More important, they describe practical ways in which individuals and organizations can use to combat this insidious menace. Spam also wastes the time of countless computer users around the planet.