Randy,

I was always under the impression that if you reply/opt out then what that in fact does is confirm your address so they have achieved their goal and have validated an address! Which I guess they then sell on.
Cheers
Caroline

>Good luck! I've tried hitting all the 'opt out' options in the junk I do get, and it only seems the volume has INCREASED. I suspect for every removal you process in that fashion, your address is given to 2 or 3 others. At least the authorities are finally pursuing the worst of the spam scams.
>
> Randy
>
>>Hi Randy
>>
>>Not a bad idea - I could probably create a hotmail/yahoo account and use it
>>for providing to people in the future - at least this will stop all the future garbage! All I have to do now is work out how to stop the present garbage (apart from ditching my existing email account and start afresh).
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>>Cheers
>>
>>Chris