That isn't even necessary anymore. I've received spam mails where the CC's are to similar combinations of my address where likely many of them don't even exist. Its easy to write a piece of sfotware to randomly tack words together (or words with common strings such as numeric dates and such a la Yahoo) and add an @gmail.com or an @yahoo.com to it. Most of those messages will end up as returned for being invalid, and the software may even record this against the generates list such that the ones that don't return such are then added to a revised spamming list later. I didn't have to give up my email address anywhere for any of this to work.
The only way to stop receiving these is to run spam-blocking software (as per what Delphi was asking about) but you always have to actually receive your email via a dedicated client for the software to have something to intercept first. Google may still keep that junk at their end (unless the software has access to Gmail to issue commands like "Delete this email now"), but Del should never receive it if the software is doing what its supposed to (some tweaking required).
The only way to stop receiving these is to run spam-blocking software (as per what Delphi was asking about) but you always have to actually receive your email via a dedicated client for the software to have something to intercept first. Google may still keep that junk at their end (unless the software has access to Gmail to issue commands like "Delete this email now"), but Del should never receive it if the software is doing what its supposed to (some tweaking required).
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