Legitimate businesses threaten our email system with their misguided marketing efforts.
There are a few ways to evade spammers, but most will limit your reception of other mail, too. While you're busy bickering about what happens to personal data online, the post office is selling your new address to junk mailers. At least 18 states have enacted or are working on legislation to impose stiff penalties on commercial emailers who engage in unsavory email tactics. In which we offer up sacrificial email addresses and are spurned by the bulk emailing gods.