For one, some email providers give your email address out to tons of different companies (especially the free ones, how do you think they are able to stay free?)
Like Hotmail for example, I signed up with an account there, never used the email address anywhere, and when I checked it recently, I had 1000+ emails from all different things. I NEVER gave it to anyone, all I did was sign up for an account.
My
[email protected] email is good though. I use netaddress.com and it has lots of protection features. 99.999% of all my spam mail goes directly into my junk mail folder. I could have it auto-delete the junk as soon as it's recieved, but I get a kick out of seeing some of the stupid stuff people send me.
I got one stefan impersonator that sent the same mail about 30 times, which in turn, I clicked one X and pressed (empty trash) and they were gone. So it doesn't bother me at all.
My email also detects email trojan viruses for me. (not like they are hard to spot anyway)
