Getting the "leinbach.org" domain was the best thing I did for my e-mail since I dropped AOL. Yes, I hate to admit it, but I used to be on AOL back in about 1992. It was AOL version 1.1 then and I installed it with a 5.25" floppy. Either AOL or Compuserve was the only local dial up ISP I could get at the time. That is my weak excuse.

Every time I use an online vendor or other party I create an alias e-mail for them that I get in my catch all mailbox (i.e. amazon@leinbach.org, expedia@leinbach.org, ebay@leinbach.org, etc.). That way I can cut that e-mail address off as soon as spam comes in on that address. It is a beautiful thing. I must have hundreds of aliases I have created over the years.

Have fun with your new domain.

Hopefully those email addresses you just posted in a public forum aren't the actual ones you use...

I don't use them any more. They go into a black hole of SPAM.
That is my point exactly.

OK, cool. I do the same thing but I have to be careful to keep track of who I've given each alias to and not give the same one out twice. What really annoys me is when a company I want to continue doing business with because they sell a decent product for a good price starts sending me unwanted adverts. My main credit card provider does that - I want to keep using them because I'm happy with the credit card service, but they persist in emailing me offers of loans and balance transfers despite my telling them I don't want them. Unfortunately they don't smell "spammy" enough for my spam filter to catch them. I could delete the email address, but then I'd also stop receiving important service announcements. So I'm left either putting up with the adverts or changing to a different company.

I explained to my credit card company, customer service dept, by phone, that if they EVER made me any more unsolicited phone calls, I would cancel my card.

They explained that it was legal to phone me as they had a 'client relationship' with me.

I made it clear that I wasn't joking.

They said it would take 3-4 weeks for the message to get through to their phone people.

I said they'd lose my business if I got phoned in that time period.

They said they'd do their absolutely best to move my request quickly.

I haven't had a single phone call from them since.

They still have my business. (But I wasn't making an empty threat. I would have left, and I'm sure they heard that in my voice)

I don't get email spam from them, but if I do, I will adopt the same tactic. I suggest you try it.

I might try that the next time they do it but I'd rather not move because I'm otherwise happy with the service. I use it as my main card because it has the best online management interface of the cards I have, though they did recently disable a useful feature (printer-friendly statements) for no apparent reason.

I agree with them, it is legal for them to contact you.

However, that point is somewhat irrelevant, as you don't seem to have accused them of doing anything illegal.

Your "request" not to be contacted is probably just a request, and therefore not legally binding, but you're quite entitled to take your business elsewhere if they don't abide by it.

Unfortunately most spammers don't have an existing business relationship, so there is no similar stick to beat them with.

I would quite like to have chickensinenvelopes.net, but it'd probably cost way too much money, and my website isn't brilliant.

Not very much these days - there are lots of domain providers offering domains for under $10 per year, often with free web and email forwarding.

I use godaddy.com, but there are lots of others.

I'm getting it through Richard archaro who is being nice to me, so that's OK. Thanks for the help though! :D