There's not much we can do about it. All you can do is put a lot of anti-spam services at the front and bounce the spam emails, but it still takes a huge amount of server power to reject spammed mail, and we have to pay for the traffic. Mak says another big problem is vandal spam, with spammers using a free email provider's domain name as a fake reply address. He says the Australian government needs to work with the US government, as the US is the source of most spam. Mak agrees with Rollo that spam is not the same as paper junk mail.
Spammers have no such limits because it's free.
They can't lose, even if they get a small response, because it costs them nothing. Mak also says spammers have become smarter in their subject line, headings to lure email users into opening emails. They just want to hit eyeballs and lure you to open it, and it often works. Your name, suburb and comments may be published in The Australian and on this site. We reserve the right to edit your submission.