It won't fool all of them, but for the ones who haven't got somewhat more sophisticated spider-bots, it will.
Cutting down on spam is almost as good as eradicating it - in the sense that it's damn near impossible to eradicate it anyhow.
Cutting down on spam is almost as good as eradicating it - in the sense that it's damn near impossible to eradicate it anyhow.
Email to amazon and msdn addresses would autoforward to your catchall address - if you found that msdn was spamming you too much, then you can just mark anything coming in on that address as spam. (if their unsubscribe didn't work, that is.
It's a great way to find out who sells their email lists (or has had them stolen). "doostang.com" is a great example of this - I receive a ton of spam from other companies based on the email I used on their website.
Just FYI.
I do exactly that, BUT with one critical difference:
I once had a catch-all address set up for everything@example.com, but I got lots of spam to random made-up addresses. I now use everything@sub.example.com, and I don't see any spammers making up addresses within my subdomain.
Where this unfortunately breaks down seriously is those sites that require you to log in with an email address, and require you to share that login with other people. Especially paypal -- I get spam to my paypal address, because anyone I've ever bought anything from on ebay knows that address. And there is no way to both use that service and keep my email private. There's a variety of similar sites out there.