E-mail needs a ‘weird propaganda’ filter

by J Scott Christianson, Columbia Daily Tribune Columnist

The amount of e-mail “spam” I get on a given day is enough to make me howl “shut ’em down” anytime someone proposes legislation to make spamming illegal. In fact, the death penalty for spammers is probably something I could support at this point. So this year, I got a “spam filter” that has reduced the spam to a manageable amount.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t take care of the people who go through the effort to forward me all the crap from their inboxes. For example, one…

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