Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.

They gathered outside Macari's, the musical instrument shop that specializes in amps, guitars and dreams of head-banging rockstardom.

Everybody knows the publicly visible areas. But in the basement, which is a rabbit warren of ageing kit, we need to do something serious. ….

‘What ho, there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.’