Spam of the email variety is easy to spot. It's a message (sometimes two or three!) from someone you've never heard of, advertising something that you'd never use or touting some opinion that you would rather do without, and, while it appears in your inbox, it isn't actually addressed to you.

And we all also agree on what we want done about spam -- we want to get rid of it and never get any more. The first step is hitting the delete button. But would you like to do something more active? Don't send a flaming reply; that won't accomplish anything, except to confirm that your email address is a good one. What's the right way?