Software opens floodgates for annoying junk e-mail

One of the greatest attributes of the Internet is the ability to pull off information on specific desired topics of interest.

Users don’t have to flip through the pages of a magazine or wrestle through different parts of a newspaper to find the section or story they’re looking

for. But one of the most basic, and possibly most annoying, forms of marketing is working its way through the Internet’s subject-sensitive filters.

Junk mail has found its way onto cyberspace, and the unwanted ads, coupons and brochures that once cluttered standard mailboxes across the country

can now clutter and even overload e-mail addresses…