What do door-to-door salesmen, telemarketers and U.S. postal service mail have in common with e-mail? The annoying ability to bother people with unwanted and unsolicited offers and junk mail.While many students have become used to the undesirable e-mail messages they receive with their regular e-mail, it sits as an annoyance to those online. With the 2000-2001 student directory set to be released soon, a new realm of spam is about to be released to the Ohio State population.Many companies now sell mail lists, phone lists and e-mail lists to listserve services which compile and sell the collection. It is unfortunate companies have decided to use prepared lists that are for students’ resource to add to this collection.With the progress of the Internet and e-mail comes the negative; in this case, the unwanted solicitation is the negative that people must deal with to have more technology.Some e-mail providers such as hotmail.com have formed programs that filter out e-mail that does not list the recipient specifically. Other programs allow people to block e-mail from specific e-mail addresses, another way to limit and lower e-mail spam.Ohio State, which keeps a close watch of how its Internet bandwidth is used, may want to investigate such a service for those with osu.edu e-mail addresses. By adding such a feature, the university would do its students, faculty and staff a great deal by limiting the amount of e-mail sent to each individuals e-mail boxes.The service perhaps would help move OSU into one of the few if not one of the only universities to provide this service, allowing it to be a national leader.Until that time, as Ohio State students and many others around the country face down e-mail spam, those on the Web will need to continue clicking the delete button to sort through unwanted e-mails.