> However, any spammer now instantly knows that the email address is valid. That information is worth orders of magnitude less than it used to be, especially f

> However, any spammer now instantly knows that the email address is valid. That information is worth orders of magnitude less than it used to be, especially for Google hosted email as their spam protection is near-perfect. My email address is available in the clear in a number of archived mailing lists among other places, and I'm not getting any spam at all.