Earlier this month, on a single day, America Online, the nation's largest Internet-service provider, blocked more than 1 billion pieces of junk mail. It was a new one-day record for e-mails blocked. Users of AOL or any other service provider . . .
Earlier this month, on a single day, America Online, the nation's largest Internet-service provider, blocked more than 1 billion pieces of junk mail. It was a new one-day record for e-mails blocked. Users of AOL or any other service provider probably don't think spam is being blocked nearly enough.

Even more telling is that two weeks previously, AOL's record one-day high was 780 million spam messages blocked. That's a 28 percent increase in two weeks -- and it's still not fast enough to keep up with the spammers.

With the introduction of AOL 8.0 in October, AOL added a "notify AOL" button at the bottom of a subscriber's mailbox. When a user spots a piece of spam, clicking on the notify button will bring up a box. The user can then type in a comment to AOL (or leave it blank), then hit one of two buttons: send report (to send the comments to AOL) or "send and block" to both send the report and block further spam sent from that account.

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