Re: To jose Message #5 Posted by Eric Rechlin on 5 Feb 2011, 11:28 a.m., in response to message #3 by Marcus von Cube, Germany
That's not really true anymore. I get as much spam on my email addresses that have never been posted publicly as I get on ones that have been posted publicly many times.
It seems to me that the biggest source of email addresses for spammers is viruses. All you have to do is email somebody, and if they have a virus, that virus captures your email address from their inbox and sends it to spammers.
There's really little point in protecting email addresses now, because the spammers have gotten so good. Just find a good spam filter (Gmail works great for me).
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