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Q. "I have been told that I can go online and pay my Con Ed electric bill using my checking account. Where would I find this service?"

A. You were told right. It's easy. Just go to the website listed below, put in your account number (that's on your monthly bill) and follow the simple instructions to make your payment. Click on the link below...

Denver Post (April 17, 2001) - Geeky rich white guys no longer rule the Internet.

Blue-collar workers are coming onto the 'Net in droves and, as a group, grew 52 percent over the past year, according to a new survey by Nielsen/NetRatings.

Last month, 9.5 million factory workers and laborers had home access to the Web, up from 6.2 million in March 2000. Homemakers were the second-fastest-growing group, jumping 49 percent in the past year to 2.5 million, the report said.

NetRatings measures the Internet usage of 72,000 Americans. Now, many in the working class - those who make $25,000 to $30,000 a year - make up the third-largest group on the Web.

Eventually, experts predict, home Internet usage will become as pervasive as television, in 98 percent of homes, and telephones, in 95 percent of U.S. homes.

In February, the Pew Internet Life Project came out with a report that said 16 million more people connected to the Internet during the last six months of 2000 - and a growing number of them were minorities, women and families with modest incomes.

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.