============================================================ Antispam Efforts Pick Up Steam In separate moves, Microsoft and AOL are taking aim at spam. Microsoft announced last week that new antispam technology will ship in Exchange Server 2003. Meanwhile, AOL filed five separate lawsuits against alleged spammers that the company says have blanketed AOL users with messages promoting everything from mortgages to pornography. The moves parallel junk e-mail's emergence as the scourge of computer users. Jupiter Research analysts estimate that the average e-mail inbox receives 42 spam messages a day--a number that's expected to increase by more than two-thirds, to 70 by 2007. Read more about this and other efforts to cut spam from our diets at: http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/DM/y/eUf50CyOjG0Evb0vxG0Aj ============================================================ Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379