9 of 10 Emails Now Spam

No kidding. And I know people who've given up using email because they can't stand the spam. This Reuters report tries for the 'fair and balanced' approach (see in particular the last para) but that's malarkey. Spam is an evil thing, a blight, and should be suppressed without mercy. It's wrong for a few hundred criminal gangs to operate botnets of millions of zombie computers. It's wrong for the IT infrastructure industry to turn a blind eye in hopes of making a few bucks out of it, from people replacing computers to paying extra bandwidth charges. And it's wrong for governments to fumble the issue. I pay taxes, I don't want potholes on the streets, and I don't want spam in my inbox. Is that too much to ask?