Fighting Spam

The NY Times has an article providing some tips and tricks for avoiding spam. It basically boils down to using spam filters... Yay, great advice.

But... the article did remind me of a funny story I heard about Lawrence Lessig over at Standford Law School. Apparently, several years ago, he became so overwhelmed with the amount of spam that he was receiving that he simply declared 'email bankruptcy.' He sent an apology email to the people in his address book and then retired his email address... forever.

Although most people consider an email address to be at least semi-permanent, I think we may start seeing more email bankruptcy as the spam problem gets out of control.