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Originally Posted by stuartbe
I believe that most of the problem is self inflicted. People tend to give there email address to anyone at the drop of a hat. I treat my email address like my credit card number and only give it to people I know.
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You are right in one respect but unfortunately the spamers also spam certain e-mail providers without even knowing that an address exists. They will just send out millions of e-mails to
common.names@Hotmail.com or
common.names@NTLWORLD.COM.
Not all of us are lucky enough to run our own e-mail, we have to stick with the mail providers (for most it's their ISP).
Personally I stick with Yahoo for my main address for convenience, but if I end up with a deluge of spam I'll just create another Yahoo account and use that.
People seem to forget that they can change their e-mail address and provider at any time, if you are fed up with spam through your ntlworld account move, pick a decent provider and get on with your life. :p