Mini HOWTOS.

I use a very simple system with my incoming email addresses that reduce spam to almost zero.

If you have your own domain or if your ISP allows you to setup aliases to your real email address it is simple.

Whenever you deal with a new company you set-up a new email address. So you have to open and account with a company called spammers inc. You create a forwarding address to your real email address called spammers_inc@yourdomain.co.uk If you later start to get junk mail from anyone other than spammers inc on that address you know they have passed your email address on. You can simply delete the forwarding or point it at the unknown recipient black hole. No more spam from them. You of course won't get any more mail from Spammers inc but they cannot be trusted anyway. So why deal with them any more.

If you use Thunderbird as your email client there is a feature where you can set multiple identities. This is a bit of good magic so that when you reply to a mail Thunderbird will generally select the correct return address for you. If not just select it from the drop down menu.

If you have to put your email address on a web page always put one you can live without. When the scum of the earth spammers start you can again just delete the forwarding and the spam stops instantly.