Bought and Sold by Earthlink

I just cancelled my Earthlink account, after 6+ months of not using it (and now I have DSL and loving it). When I signed up for the Earthlink account 3 years ago, I received an email address, but since I already had a yahoo account, I never used it. I'll repeat that: I NEVER used the Earthlink email account. For anything. Ever.

Can anyone explain to me why this email address that I never used has more than 100 spam messages in the inbox? I never signed into any website, signed up for any program, or ordered any product using this email account, so the only way that it could have been added to any spammer lists is if Earthlink itself sold it. Funny that they were charging me 22 bucks a month for the account when they were making money off this email address that I never used. That is lame.