In the story about attaching a business reply card to a brick you recommended contacting the DMA (Direct Mail Association) to get taken off people’s junk mail lists. A few years back, I tried an experiment. I created a brand-spanking new, and highly unique e-mail address, and input it into the DMA’s “don’t spam me” list. About a year later I began receiving spam to that address, and have ever since. The only logical conclusion is that the DMA sold the freaking list to the spammers. In my book they are an evil organization and I wouldn’t trust them in anything. I did contact them about the incident, and received no response.
Are you sure your the people you got your email address from didn’t sell, give away or otherwise leak your info to someone?
Good question, earthlink has a function where you can get 5 randomized number/letter jumbles to use as spamboxes, or up to um 8 I think email addresses that you can specify the before the @ portion of as long as it has not yet been taken. I don’t think that earthlink sells email addresses as the one that I created to give to personal friends only [I have given it to one other person than my husband so far in 5 years] and I do not get spam on it. [knock wood]