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Originally posted by harleyquinn:
Unfortunately many of the ones I get are from none of those. Instead they're from scripts that people have that send to any possibility of blahblahblah at .rr.com (I'm not putting my city in there, just in case), so, even when I changed to another addy that I gave to no one (as an experiment), I still got a crap load of spam 
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I get anywhere from 3-5 spams a day (made the mistake of accidentally opening one, so I get 2-3 each day from the same people). I just set my filter at hotmail to the highest level, and away they go to the junk mail folder. I just look in there every few days to see if anything went in there that was legit (only happened once). Then I just hit empty folder, and watch them all get flushed away.
Always, always make sure you have a good filter, then set the filter to max level. The exception being if you get a ton of emails from different sources in that one email address (i.e. you use it for business purposes), and even then if you know you get a bunch from only a few clients, you can always set the filter high and just set those clients as "protected" so they don't end up in the junk mail folder.
I hate spam. The genie is out of the bottle on it, and politicians are trying to clean up after the fact (kind of like the RIAA...). Still it is an incredible invasion, much like excessive junk mail.