"Ban it!!"

"Where do people get my email from????"

"There should be a free central registry where we can stop this, as we can with unsolicited telephone calls & faxes."

"Fax worse than email."

"Not as bad a problem as unsolicited fax."

"Someone used our address for a spam and we received endless notifications that there was a spam using our address."

"Not really a significant problem - just a time wasting bore especially when they are totally irrelevant."

"Unsolicited e-mail is a nuisance and not wanted or required the ease of sending these messages to huge numbers of people at little cost to themselves should not be permitted."

"Another "spam" that is rearing it's ugly head again is that using Fax, we can spend up to half an hour in a day chucking out unwanted mail, magazines, Faxes and Emails!"

"Like any mail shots I rarely bother to read them, find them annoying and inconvenient, especially when it is down to me to attempt to get the company to remove me from their mail shot list."

"Hoaxes about viruses are irritating."

"We get a little unsolicited e-mail but as not not enough to cause a real problem, thank goodness."

"We make conscious efforts to avoid giving out our e-mail address when on the Internet or completing paper forms and suchlike. We will only provide it to bona-fide organisations or where we can be sure the risk of being "spammed" is small or can be traced back if it were to happen."

"I think that ISPs have an important role in reducing spam and that our ISP, ednet (http://www.ednet.co.uk), is small and technically competent and is able to keep this under control. We get almost no spam (<5% of emails). By contrast, approx 80% of our incoming FAX traffic is junk."

"Hate it!"

"Email does not cause our business a significant problem - fortunately we only get a couple per day - but it is a major irritation. Also it doesn't work from a marketing ooint of view. We have NEVER bought any product or service as a result of an unsolicited email."

"It doesn't cause any specific problems, just annoyance sometimes!"

"It is growing and will cause a problem in the near future."

"Spam is not a problem as such, but it sure is annoying."

"Targeted email is not a problem in itself. However those organisations that indiscriminantly email all and sundry are the very reason that this subject is open to discussion. Their actions cause network traffic problems and produce little benefit to the internet community."

"It's not a great problem, but we get it regularly and it is irritating and wastes time."

"Best way to deal with unsolicited email is to just delete it and forget it. Anything else wastes time."

"It has to be very clever not to spot it before you even think about reading it."

"It is currently an irritation rather than a significant problem."

"Fortunately, so far we have received only limited amounts of spam mail."

"It doesn't cause a significant problem but it is annoying. Any recommendations on how to reduce it?"

"It is mostly a mild irritant - seems to have declined somewhat over the last 6 months."

"The only thing we find very concerning is the amount of unsolicited pornographic mail we receive. The other stuff is fine but with young children in the house the porn is very unwelcome."

"It does not cause us a significant problem, but is annoying. There are no legal mechanisms to deal with it and there should be. Unlike junk s.mail it DOES cost the recipient, in download time (phone bill) and computer equipment time and resources to sort it out from legitimate mail. I can foresee it becoming a serious problem in the future, unless governments (nationally, internationally and of the internet) find an acceptable method of policing it."