I say people must like spam, otherwise they would not reply to it, and it would all stop, fast.

I think it's absolutely crazy that out of 3 billion emails, 2.5 billion are spam. That's almost 80% of the email traffic consisting of spam. I'm an IT specialist and have to deal with spam on a daily basis. The answer to faster Internet isn't bigger pipes, but rather putting an end to spam. I have to agree with 0Chance, be smarter and actually think about the messages you decide to open.

I don't know for sure, but there are only 18 people using e-mail on my network and about half have no clue what spam is other than they need to send it to me when they get it. I've headed off three malware attacks on our firewall since starting here almost a year ago. My example isn't a huge representation of the world population, but 50% "who have no clue" is a bit scary and I'm sure its much higher than that. How many people do you know that have a computer "to surf the web and get e-mail"? How many of them do you think know half of what they're doing when they open a spam?