Re: Does it work?

Many thanks for all your helpful responses.
My email address is probably quite vulnerable to dictionary attack as 
some of you mentioned (gazza is a popular nickname in the UK!) but I 
know for sure someone had it before me as I have had emails from 
companies to which the previous owner had subscribed (eBay and the like).
I have other address which don't suffer so much spam and just created 
this new one as a spare. Hence I will probably drop it as it is a chore 
to report all this spam considering I don't really do anything else with 
the address.
I had heard of some people having success in significantly reducing 
their spam with spamcop so thought I'd try it to see if I could clean up 
this address.
I've also heard of a program called Mailwasher which apparently 
generates a bounce in response to spam in an attempt to convince the 
spammers the address in invalid. I am a bit sceptical of this since a) I 
doubt whether the spammers care about bounces and b) I worry if such 
bounces could be detected as being false and thus validate the address.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Thanks

Gareth