Bill Gates doesn't like spam and he's not alone, I'm a Aberdeen Angus man myself. But he also doesn't like unsolicited commercial email, and today in his lengthy piece of solicited, 100% opted-in, permission marketing on the rise of spam he notes that...

Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous.

Too true, Bill, it is ridiculous. I don't know about you but I've noticed a very sharp increase in my daily spam volumes over the last two or three weeks, and I'm now receiving in excess of 400 per day. Plus it's beginning to well and truly get on my proverbials, this has to be the beginning of the end for email spam, it's getting to the - as Bill would say - ridiculous stage. That's not even taking account of the adult nature of most of it, the suitability of which particularly where children are concerned, beggars belief.