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On 31 Jul 2016, at 19:22, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:25 am, Gordon Levi wrote:
>
>
>> I admire those who use a valid email address on Usenet but it is an
>> open invitation for spammers. I doubt if there is anybody who uses
>> their primary email address.
>
>
> Spammers have moved on from Usenet.  Those few that haven't are
> indistinguishable from the thousands who harvest email addresses from
> websites, address books, or just randomly generate addresses hoping 
> they'll
> be delivered.

I've used my email addresses, including this one, openly for the last 20 
years (or so).

The number of spam emails today is just a very small fraction of those I 
received in the 90s/00s, with the help of a Spam filtering program on my 
machine (SpamSieve in my case) I rarely get any spam at all that I see. 
My guess is that the ISPs are way better at filtering away the spam.

= jem