Yup, true.
What we need are email programs that auto-respond to spam messages as if you are interested in what they have to offer. Automatically follow all the links in the message,etc.
Then there will be so much noise for the spammers to sift through that it won’t be profitable to spam.
Yeah, that would work nicely. Spam the spammers! 
Maybe what we need is a new email system that counters spam!
3 years ago I set up a 2nd hotmail account, but have never used it. (to either send or receive mail)
Yesterday it received ~100 spam mails.
Work that one out =/
We tend to make emails containing real words or names. A spam bot only needs to assert the existence of a particular string within an email address and it will attempt numerous permutation’s of email addresses using that string as a component.
yeah, 100 emails in 3 years isn’t concerning, when you get 100 emails in 3 days, that’s a problem.