[id10t]

Quite a few of those lists don't honor the unsubscribe, or it is pointing at someone besides you.

Three things I do for this stuff -

1 - each company, entity, etc. that I give an email to gets a unique address, usually with the group/company name in it. Makes it easy to find out who sold my info or let it get stolen.

2 - set up a filter on your inbox, any message that contains "Unsubscribe" is sent to its own sub-folder automatically, and I basically ignore them unless I'm looking for a specific sale from Bass Pro, etc.

3 - if someone sells my info and causes too much incoming mail (ie, the tax collector when I paid my speeding ticket - had spam for traffic school before I had my payment receipt) I can redirect all mail to that address at the server level. Either drop it (no fun, but at least I don't see it) or what I'll typically do is find out the most important person in that group/company and their email, redirect the address to that, and then go sign that address up for some gay porn, etc. Figure turn about is fair play.