All too often, the working day feels as if it doesn't start until lunchtime. After trawling through voicemails, post, junkmail and our email inbox, there seems little time left to, ahem, work. Now, as today's Review highlights, we are also being deluged with junk email.

Conventional advice is that we should never respond to those unsolicited internet correspondences typically entitled 'Buy the best loo paper in the world', 'How to reverse the ageing process' or 'Request for urgent business relationship'.

Conversely, we commend the tireless public-spiritedness of Jonathan Land of New York. Through his website - www.thespamletters.com - he engages in courteous and lengthy correspondence with junk mailers.

'Is this the best loo paper in the world or merely in Ohio?'; 'I don't want to go back 10 years; I was having a horrible time with spots' and 'I own many companies. Which one in particular did you have in mind?' are the kind of responses he sends to perplex the spammers. In an age when so many have forgotten that courtesy demands a reply, Land is an inspiration to us all.