It seems like the bl**dy stuff just won't go away.
I had a hotmail account that used to get about 10 to 15 items of spam a day si I decided to see what would happen.
I let the mailbox fill up to its 1Mb limit, upon which Hotmail rejects all incoming mail.
I logged in once a week just to keep the account alive for a month.
Then I stopped loggin in for 2 months, so that the account was deleted.
Then I reopened the hotmail account (same email address).
Within 10 minutes the spam had started arriving again.
There must be a incredible amount of bandwidth being taken up by this spam.