It has become a lot more common for spam to arrive in the form of inside sales reps sending semi-personalized emails to a guessed email address. Even running a

It has become a lot more common for spam to arrive in the form of inside sales reps sending semi-personalized emails to a guessed email address. Even running a startup with just two people, we could get multiple emails a week from sales reps who just guessed the email based on my name and the company. I'm sure it only gets worse as the company grows. I have started adopting the following approach to keeping email accounts spam free: 1) Choose a non-standard address format. For instance, my name, Devin Helton could be devhelton or devinhelt. I would avoid devin@ or dhelton. 2) Have a few different aliases. You can set this up pretty easily in gmail or fastmail. Give out one alias when signing up for services, another alias that is semi-public, another alias for people you personally correspond with. You can then set up filters that separate out the messages, so personal correspondence is separated from sales emails.