John
For just this reason I have two e-mail accounts and recommend that everyone have two accounts. I have one e-mail account with my ISP that I use for friends and business contacts that I know are legitimate. The other account is on Hot Mail but Google G-mail will also work. I will use this second account for any request for my address that I think may lead to spam or I don't want to be bothered with.
I check my first e-mail account many times a day and still a few get through but the junk filter in Outlook takes cars of them. I may check the other account once a week just to keep it cleaned out and 99.9% of the e-mails there are junk or spam. This keeps the prime account clean and used for what it was intended to be used for.
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