Fedora Users — OT Spam test

A while ago a pop up offer me a free laptop if I signed up for severalfree offers showed up. Yes I knew exactly what the site really was andif actually got the free lap top I probably would have drop dead fromthe shock.I created a separate email address I could monitor - they were the onlyones with the address so I knew anything on that address was spam.Within 12 hours spam about 30 spam a day started to appear, I also gavemy actual telephone number. I started to receive a number of nuisancecalls within 12 hours as well. I could deal with the nuisance callseasily so that was not a bother except for 1 persistent caller. Hadthe calls been from a scum ball outfit I could have understood but thepersistent pest was AOL. direct requests to remove me from their listdid not work and they even laughed at me for making the request. Ifinally resorted to contacting the head office and threatening legalaction if the calls (5 or 6 a day continued) immediately the callsstopped - not 1 call after the email went to the head office legaldepartment..The obvious close association between spamers and AOL is a concern andto me explains in part why spam is such a problem to stop.When I get bored counting the spam I will close the email address butfor now it has been a month and the spam shows no sign of slowing down.I am tempted to bounce it all to AOL and let them deal with the spm.