How do you handle this ?

[jinx]

Sometimes I get lots of spam email, more so than others. I usually just delete it, but sometimes I will click on the 'unsubscribe' option and sometimes my email address is already filled in. On those I click 'unsubscribe' and it seems to work for awhile.
Also sometimes my email address is NOT filled in. There is a blank with a note like " Please fill in email address " . What ! Why should I do that ? They already have my email address- or do they ?
Now I think this is just a trick to get some real live email addresses. Then they will spread them around and send you more spam.
What do you think and what do you do ?
Just curious.

[kfan]

You are right! Responding to spam only tells the creep sending that he has a live addy. SPAMI just block them or if you look around you can find software to bounce it back to them. SPAMspamcon.org (http://law.spamcon.org/) emailtoday.com (http://www.emailtoday.com/emailtoday/dir/email_filters.htm) and combat.uxn.com (http://combat.uxn.com/) have some good info.

[Simo]

Im the king of Spam...I get soooooo much of it SPAM:o

I use an alias when signing up for things and if they spam me I just point the alias at there email...makes em stop pretty quick.

My g/f was getting litteraly 100's of email EVERY hour after she submitted hersite to an obscure "search engine"...I noticed they were all from the sae adddress so I just redirected *@melsjokes.com emails back to em...hehe...I kick @$$...

[Omega]

I think it's funny that a site called melsjokes.com was spamming her. SPAMI have a whole email (hotmail) account set up for spam. SPAMI just give that email to any place that I suspect will spam me.