Well guys, is it me or over the Christmas period the spammers were out in force? I got an awful lot of spam this year, more than last.
How is everyone trying to combat this?

For me i watch were  i use my email, always unsubscribe to mailing lists, and have a good mail flirter(but they still get through)

Yeah, spam was up this holiday season because people were a) checking email more often and b) buying more stuff online.

Spammers need holiday sales too! 

I hate spam,
I get tons of spam  , so much that I had to change my email address twice. I learned my lesson the second time around. What have done now is set up two different email address, one of these address I use solely for bills or other online services that I have used. The second one I use to email friends or sign up for other services that I don't use much. You have to keep your email private and try not to use it on several websites, plus being part of a forwarding message doesn't help since that's the best way to get your email address spammed.