We've been having great success at cracking SPAM and reporting the offenders to their respective servers. This is especially effective in reporting to Internet service providers and web mail services that will, hopefully, follow through with your complaint and remove the offending user. This could be a way of confirming that your address is live.
Many spammers use bot programs to travel the web and seek out e-mail addresses from websites.
It won't stop them, but it can make life a little more difficult, dealing with e-mail addresses that don't work. If you can read HTML code, there is a hidden bogus e-mail address on this page. If you need to maintain your e-mail, fax or contact databases, go to our Database Management page. For this reason, I've chosen to use Pegasus , as my e-mail reader.