About 2 years ago I embarked on an experiment. I have been submitting an e-mail address to as many websites (advertisement related) as possible, while maintaining my personal security.
For the past two weeks, my E-mail address has reached more companies than I would want to count. The e-mail host does not filter ligitimate advertising. I've been getting roughly 50 e-mails a day. My experiment is about to pay off.
Yesterday began to unsubscribe to all these unwanted programs. I am not keeping an accurate count, but I have unsubscribed about 100 e-mails. They all pretty much told me it would take 10 days to delete my address. Today I have recieved 5 e-mails.
I don't expect to completely kill all the advertisements, however, I do expect to reduce them significantly.
I certainly hope this works, so that I can begin to reuse my oldest and favorite e-mail address.