Spammer harvested this address, 11 messages discarded (was: Requesting critique of spec of my new MayLoad utility (similar to Unix 'make'))

> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:07:31 -0700
> From: make1.5.CalRobert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Robert Maas,
http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
Attention anyone who might have wanted to reply to me privately:

Shortly after I posted my thread-starter, a spammer harvested my
address and sent me two Nigerian 419 spam before I could disable
the address.

After I disabled this address, eleven additional e-mail were sent
to this address, all discarded, no NDN issued in any case. Most of
these additional/discarded messages were probably from the spammer,
but I have no way to know. Not one legitimate message arrived prior
to the two Nigerian spam.

In case anyone reading this thread sent me e-mail and I never
replied, that's why, I never received your e-mail.

Anybody who wants to reply to me privately on this topic
 (if you tried before, I hope you saved a backup copy of your message
text),
try this address instead (camoflaged here):
 make <digit2> <dot> <digit5> <dot> CalRobert <at the same domain as
before>
Spammers flood my mailbox with several hundred e-mail per day.
Blame it on them that I have to take such drastic measures to try
to separate the very very few legitimate e-mail I receive from the
thousand times more spam that I receive.
Blame it on Yahoo! Mail for not providing any proper spam-filtering
system whereby I could **reject** any e-mail I don't want, and I
have to resort to a third-party (SpamGourmet) filtering system
which also has the bad design of accepting-then-discarding e-mail
to addresses I've already disabled instead of rejecting the e-mail
so that you'd get a NDN (Non-Delivery Notice) from your mail agent,
but at least SpamGourmet lets me spawn variants of the same basic
address that all feed to the same mailbox so that I can disable
some variant addresses and keep others active while needing to look
in only one mailbox for all the e-mail that arrived via all those
variants.