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[Boerseun]

So you register at some dodgy website for something, or you want to download some tunes or apps or whatever - and you simply have to enter a valid email address. Only halfwits and secondhand car salesmen will give out their actual email addys, because 99.999% of those sites build mail lists which they eventually sell to spammers.

I have a sacrifical Yahoo! address that I use for these kind of registrations, and it's getting nuked with spam (quite predictably).

So how much do you get?

I just browsed through my Yahoo! bulk email folder, and the datestamp on the first one (since I last cleaned out) is 2nd January 2007. That was more than 1,500 mails ago!!! So I got 1,500 spams in 25 days, or, 60 spam emails per day. Luckily, that's not my production account, it's simply 'the sacrificial lamb', that I've had since 1997. Ten years! Gosh, that account must be registered with EVERY SINGLE SPAMMER on the planet, by this time. Or maybe I'm one of the lucky ones, getting relatively few spam emails, I don't know if 60 per day is a little or a lot.

How much spam do you sit with, and what strategy do you employ for not getting spammed?