> Want less spam? Don't distribute your address or sign-up everywhere. Around 1999 or so I noticed someone trying to send spam to every common name on my mail

> Want less spam? Don't distribute your address or sign-up everywhere. Around 1999 or so I noticed someone trying to send spam to every common name on my mail server. I had never given out my email address and yet here I was getting spam just because I had a server. Even if I heavily obfuscate my email address on my website such as with this hack http://icefox.github.com/js_email_link_hack/ http://icefox.github.com/js_email_link_hack/ I would still get spam because this attack vector.