Spam Overload

My email address at work has been receiving more and more spam messages over the last few months--often 50 or more per day. I don't know how my work email address made it onto so many spamming lists, but once it's out it's out, right? I've had been using SpamNet and later iHateSpam to deal with this and that, along with a few rules in Outlook, had made it almost bearable.

Until the stupid Sobig.f virus hit the world, that is. My computer didn't get infected--I don't tend to fall for that kind of thing and our corporate filter is pretty good. But since my address had been on so many spam emails, it now exists in countless addressbooks around the world. So now I kept receiving emails from all the spam co-recipients that did get infected with Sobig.f. That, plus all the email from mail server replying to my (forged) sender address that they had received a virus from me caused my account to be swamped with email. We're talking hundreds and hundreds of messages every day. I feel like my phone number had been posted in bathrooms all over town and everyone is calling for a good time.

So our IT guy cut me off. My work address is disabled, for now at least. If you need to email me at work, use my first-name only (yeah, like I'm going to post the new address here...)