On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 22:52, Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]

> Are you going to change your email accounts every time some spammer
> starts using the address?  My email address has been used by virii and
> spam for at least 15 years.  It was funny because when this started to
> be a thing, I got a few emails from people telling me to stop sending
> them a virus.
>

I've had the same experience.

I've been using the same personal address since internet reached the city
where
I lived (3 decades).  My address ended up in the ghostscript documentation,
so has been harvested by spammers many times.  There were a few times
that spam messages were coming faster than I could delete them, so
incoming mail was bouncing, but I was also getting legitimate requests for
help with ghostscript issues.  My collection of spam messages was useful
to tweak filters.

One note: I do look at Reply-To header lines.  Most of the spam I get
does not have Reply-To header lines, but perhaps some upstream filter
is blocking messages where the Reply-To address is suspicious.

-- 
George N. White III
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