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NeswBytes (April 15, 2001) - The immigration records of more than 17 million Americans who entered the country through Ellis Island, N.Y. will go online for the first time this coming Tuesday, April 17th.

According to a statement by Family Tree magazine, until now, the immigration documents of those who entered America through the "island of hope, island of tears" have been accessible only on microfilm. But the opening of the $22.5 million American Family Immigration History Center on Ellis Island, and its companion Web site at www.ellisislandrecords.org, will exhibit the actual ship passenger logs, the magazine said.

A recent Maritz Poll found that interest in genealogy has grown 33% since 1996, and 60% of Americans are now tracing their family trees, the publication said. "Computers are taking records from dusty library shelves and putting them only a few mouseclicks away. The Internet is connecting distant cousins across the continent".

Yes, there are legitimate and effective ways to do commerce on the web. SPAM is not one of them.

SPAM is U.C.E. (pronounced ucky) Unsolicited Commercial Email -- or, for that matter unsolicited bulk email of any sort.

There are companies that send millions and millions of pieces of the same "get rich quick" and other "be a sucker" promotions through email.

DO NOT reply to SPAM asking to be removed. Many SPAM emails have instructions on how to be removed from the list. If you respond to these instructions they have a "verified" address -- an address that is known to go to a real email account. So, current thinking has it that you will end up on more SPAM lists rather than being removed. So don't bother. Besides more often than not the address is not a valid address.

DO report spam to the appropriate ISP. It will take some looking to uncover who the spammer's ISP is. This info is held in the "email-header". Once you find the proper ISP report the spammer. If no one reports then the ISP can't do anything to help. Forward the SPAM to your own ISP (Internet Service Provider) with a request that the ISP try to filter such email.

DO NOT under any circumstance buy any product or use any service that you learn about through SPAM. If SPAM was not effective they would stop doing it. And at the moment it is only marginally effective. If only a few more of us make efforts to be a little less gullible the SPAM market might fall apart.

DO reward those merchants and commerce-type folks who practice nice marketing. Give them a tiny bit more of your attention and a benefit of the doubt.