Valuable Advice
We all hate "spam". One of the origins of "spam" is signing up to get something "free". We all love "free". My answer to this is to have one of those "free" email accounts that is disposable. The only thing you use it for is something you don't care about. You don't give it to your friends or relatives; you simply keep it handy for situations where you want to sign up for something and you suspect that they "might" sell your email address to someone else. If they do, and the "spam" gets too much for you, just close the account (or ignore it) and open another one.
I use http://www.hotmail.com for this purpose. The only catch is that you have to check in once a month for your email or you will lose it. There are others that I haven't tried. I believe you can do the same with http://www.yahoo.com as well.
One other little hint. If I'm not sure, I use this address in the beginning. Then, after a reasonable period of time, if I'm not getting any spam as a result, I will change the address, with that particular entity, to my normal address. It's a good idea to keep track of these. I have a Notepad file on my computer showing all the places where I have an ID and a password. That has the additional benefit that, if anyone ever steals my computer, they won't have any trouble using some of those exotic websites.
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