We never answer our house phone, ringer is shut off. If it is a legit call, they can leave a message. We use Ooma which is a VOIP service. Ooma does a good job of blocking most spam and any spam calls that get through usually do not leave a message.
Answering spam calls may add your number to a list of potential suckers.
Gmail does a pretty good job of blocking spam. For our local email we use Thunderbird as an application. The default is to block remote content in messages. That way the sender is not informed that the spam went to a working email address.
Alan
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