Ever since I have registered my email address, I have been very careful not to put it in any form online.  I had the intention of avoiding spam altogether, and if I didn’t use it publicly anywhere, I thought that I should be safe.

Well, I was wrong.

Somehow, someone figured out what my address was and begun to send me offers to online dating sites, not to mention other, non-family sites.

At this point I was getting very fed-up with what was happening to me and I thought that I should do something about it.

I went to the store and bought some spam filtering software, installed it on my computer, and waited to see what was going to happen.  It turns out that the software does an amazing job, and I no longer receive email that I have no interest in reading.  What a sigh of relief.