>Do you ever get advertisements like get rich quick, with a note that says click here if you do not wish to receive additional e-mail of this type? When I click on it I get a message that says no such address exists. Now, I just delete this type of message without reading it. Wish the unwanted mail from the post office could be gotten rid of as easily. Perhaps I should forward it to the post master general - he seems to be a person that needs something useful to do in life.

I recently read that some spammers actually use your attempt to cancel spam as a means of address verification. Bummer! Watchout for the ""Click Here to Remove"...

Here's a story on spam: I created a Yahoo email account merely to access my other emails from a common point, "POP3 Access," maybe 2 years ago. Didn't use it for actual emailing. It was very quiet until a few months ago - them suddenly, my Yahoo address is full of spam everyday - lots of it pretty gross stuff, too.

Therefore, either Yahoo sold the address, or someone stole it from them. No other way for everyone to get it.

I filter my regular accounts too - but to be frank, I don't mind spam or junk snail-mail nearly as much as telemarketers (or horrors - door-to-door salespeople!). Those are much more intrusive.