A month of spam: no help for sex life, but it enlarges the inbox

If you ever wanted concrete proof that the “Don’t share my information with other companies” and “Stop emailing me” options on a web site are often useless, it’s here. It’s impossible to know which companies share data and which don’t, but registering with the “do not share my e-mail” option ticked didn’t appear to reduce spam in any way. Some of the bloggers reported a drop in the amount of spam they were receiving on a day-to-day basis when they unsubscribed from certain services, but the trend is not particularly strong.