best thing you can do is get a "junk" email address. Go make a hotmail acct, and use that address to sign up for things on the internet (free stuff, forums, web sites, etc) and have a separate email address that you just use for friends/family. I have had the same 2 email addresses for just about 2 yrs now. My "junk" acct, gets about 50 msgs a day, my "personal" acct has never seen one piece of spam.