Quote Originally Posted by JPnyc View Post
The best way to deal with it is to use emails such as hotmail, which have a setting that only allows emails from your contacts to reach your inbox. All the other free emails I'm aware of allow spam to get through, except that one. Not a single piece of spam, ever.

The anonymity of the web and the global nature of it makes it impossible to hold spammers accountable. The best we can do is, if we know anyone personally who visits or buys from a web site that spammed them, beat them senseless. They're the real culprits. If there were no profit margin in it, it wouldn't happen.
I hereby officially nominate this response to be considered the best yet!

Thank you for your thoughts!

I'm a bit of a spaz sometimes, so I'll probably just forget about this in a day or two, but it still pisses me off immensely. I posted an advertisement for services on craigslist, and the only responses I got were all spam. Luckily, craigslist anonymizes your email, so I don't have to worry about any more spam now that the post has been taken down. I actually have a fake email address that I use specifically for signing up to questionable sites. It's "hahafakeemailaddressforspam@[a free email provider].com!" lol