I go a little farther. I figure an attentive spammer might figure out that if I use [email protected] to sign up for Amazon, I may have exactly the scheme where *@johnsmith.net will work, so they can just add that to the spam list as a wildcard and pick a new address every time. So instead, I use [email protected], john102, john103, etc, to try and obscure my strategy and prolong the life of the domain forwarding.
I go a little farther. I figure an attentive spammer might figure out that if I use [email protected] to sign up for Amazon, I may have exactly the scheme where *@johnsmith.net will work, so they can just add that to the spam list as a wildcard and pick a new address every time. So instead, I use [email protected], john102, john103, etc, to try and obscure my strategy and prolong the life of the domain forwarding.