We all get the Nigerian prince scams, the webmail upgrade phishing attempts, the Viagra commercials, and all that trash in our e-mail inboxes. I can't be the only one whose e-mail management usually consists of striking the Delete key five or six times on useless messages.
However, when you get a message that is really junk/spam/phishing (rather than just something uninteresting), you should be pressing the Spam button rather than Delete. Most e-mail providers use that feedback to power a Bayesian spam recognition algorithm, which will lower the chance of you and other people getting similar junk again. By flagging spam as such, you help yourself and others.
Now I wish mail clients had a standard shortcut to mark a message as spam and delete it. Maybe Shift+Delete?
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