Spam — unsolicited bulk and commercial e-mail — may be killing e-mail. Spam is causing people to cancel their Internet accounts (or at least stop reading their e-mail) because e-mail has become an unpleasant waste of time. E-mail has also become unreliable because spam filters sometimes accidentally throw away good messages with the spam. Spam wastes thousands of hours of your time, as you skim Subject lines and press the Delete key, trying to guess which messages aren’t even worth opening.

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