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to check my great grandparents' immigration papers but they won't let me in. What's going on?"

A. It appears that the interest in this new site is too much for the site to handle. Try again in a few days.

Reuters (April 18, 2001) - It's 2 a.m. and you can't sleep. Earlier that day, you had a huge fight with your boss. Or, you found drugs in your kid's pants pocket. Or, you hate your life, because you just started high school and no one likes you.

Simply roll out of bed and log on. Type in your problem, or schedule a live online chat with a therapist. You've just entered the world of e-therapy, counseling sites that link users to mental health professionals.

The sites are a welcome alternative for people who can't afford traditional hourly therapy rates of $100 to $200, have no access to in-person therapy, worry about a stigma, are chronically shy, intimidated by the process, or simply wake up in the middle of the night needing a sympathetic ear.

Click on some of the links below to check out mental health assistance online...

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.