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E-mail SPAM. Don’t you just hate it? I mean, just what the hell is the point of it all? And what's more - does anybody actually read the daily crap that arrives in their in-box?

The Internet is literally awash with the annoying stuff and it makes up nearly 90% of all e-mail traffic. And that’s a lot of e-mails. How many people actually receive this crap and then think “Ooooh, yes, I’ve run out of my little blue pills so I’ll order some more from this mysterious overseas company that can’t even spell their product name correctly”.

And when you’re not being inundated with e-mail for medicines to assist in your apparently troublesome erection problems, you’re being bombarded with crap about “hot stock tips”. Again, you’re naturally going to take the risk and spend thousands of pounds on shares from a hot e-mail tip with a subject line of “Re: Your Trousers”.

It’s at times like these I actually believe that charging people 1 pence (or cent) per e-mail will kill off this tide of crap overnight – and make some money for the ISP from genuine e-mail traffic too. The Internet may even manage run a little faster than an asthmatic steam engine.