What ever happen to PGP?
A valid point regarding the Governments involvement written above.
Spam will never go away, it will only get worst because how do you define an Unsolicited Email.
Even if the offender removes you from their mailing list it's too late becase you've already received the email you didn't want. And no sooner do you removed one offender another will take its place.
Spam has ruined newsgroups to the extent that they have become unusable, spam has had a detrimental affect on productivity through the shear time wasted ploughing through [in my case] 100s of emails a day.
Spam costs business' millions of pounds a year because mail servers are overloaded and workers waste time filtering through #### in their inboxes ever morning.
Spam is a menace to the internet society.
Skippy.