I haven't looked too deeply into the anti-spam bill passed by the Senate this week. Frankly, I'm not sure I trust anything to come out of Congress these days. But I now receive approximately 40 spams a day on my home account -- and apparently I'm relatively lucky. And they're either about mortgage deals, debt reduction, penis enlargement, (my husband gets the breast enlargement ones) or discounts on prescription medications for the most part. Who are the morons that are actually pursuing ANYTHING contained in a spam email? Maybe if EVERYONE stopped responding to unsolicited ads, the leeches wouldn't send any more. But I'm probably being naive.

And then today, I receive not one, but two emails about refinancing. Now I get these all the time, remember? But today's messages sent to my email address not only contain my full name but my full home address as well. How is this possible - I haven't applied or signed up for anything. I understand how they can obtain each item individually -- I don't understand how they can connect it with my email address. I'm really pissed. And of course clicking on "unsubscribe" doesn't help. They both have the same 800 number to call -- which of course I will use. I'm sure that will be a productive call.

I keep saying to myself "there ought to be a law." But it has to be one that will actually solve the problem and it looks like this one won't do it. Another piece of legislation that incumbents can point to in 30-second ads but that really won't make one bit of difference. Sigh.