Open question: How to stop people from SPAMING you !!

         Have you ever got one of those forwarded mails telling you to keep on passing the mail so that some where some how you contribute to some fund raiser for some poor family undergoing the most gruesome tragedy imaginable......and being the softy that you are you go on to spam all you friends and family hoping that you bring some relief into the life of people who don't even exist .
WTF !!

Welcome to the modern day HELL called SPAM.

         Marking these as  spam has become a daily routine in most of our lives and we were happy with google's spam filter .......... that is unless the spam actually comes (and it keeps on coming with a feverish pace ) from someone you really care about, like your friends , your family ? What the hell does one do then ????  You can't mark them as spam since that efectively blocks out (atleast partially ) your contact with them !!

         I for myself have always had this huge folder in my google mailbox  that keeps all the crappy forwarded stuff I ever got from friends, family etc., etc. I clean it up once a month hoping and praying to god that the next ones don't come from anyone I know ...... Somehow the good lord has'nt answered my prayers yet .

         So last week I took an initiative, I told one of my frequent spammers to stop spamming me. Instead of being apologetic the person ( name concelaed due to reasons of privacy ) actually affronted me of damaging our friendship and breaking contact. And I was like WTF !!!  Till now I always thought that the physicological reason for "sharing" a spam was the sheer joy of sharing or simply to overcome one's guilt - conscience , in short altruistic pleasures. But now it seems that people living busy lives actually think that by spamming someone they are in fact keeping in touch !! However there can be days/months/years at an end till you actually get a meaningful correpondence from them, and if you ask the reply is simple "I was busy" .

         So I propose an open discussion guys .......
" what goes on in the head of a spammer ? " AND " how to stop people from spamming you ? "