No! No! No! The MAJORITY of spammers use unsubscribe links at the bottom of emails as confirmation that there’s a mailbox on the other end.
When I was young and stupid (wait I am being redundant) I fell for that one. SPAM to my email account 100 fold. Eventually I had to abandoned that email address and get another.
I learned how to use the TOOLS with my email and set up rules that pretty much keep the clutter from my inbox. Since some legitimate email ends up in the junk mail box by mistake every so often I check and then empty the box.
I run my own email server at home and have a mail gateway that filters out all of that stuff. And yes, legitimate mail still gets lumped in, but I don’t deal with junk mail nearly as much as I used to.
The way I figure it is if a legitimate entity is trying to contact me but continues to get stuck in my mail filters, they’ll reach out to me through some other method. Otherwise, I rarely check the spam filter for legit mail.