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Bookmark Button  Building Your Personal Anti-Spam Strategy  by
Michael Herrick  You're just getting back from a well-deserved
and much-enjoyed vacation. For two weeks, you haven't touched a
keyboard, looked at a screen, or put a phone to your ear. Now
it's payback time. It's your first morning back in the office
and you can't put it off any longer. You've got to check your
email.  Your first glance at the email status bar confirms your
fears. There are 1,840 messages waiting to be picked up. You
groan. You know that translates to about 1,800 spams. Well, it's
nice to know someone cares. Hold my calls for the next hour. I'm
deleting spam.  What used to be a minor annoyance has become the
scourge of the Internet, ruining your email experience. Everyone
gets spam, of course, but you've been depending on business
email for years, so you get a lot of spam. When your Aunt Gussy
starts complaining about the junk she gets on her AOL
account--"positively doz