That has happened to me... twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@ and once to postmaster@. Both of those are "well-known" addresses that received one spam mail each.

Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don't seem to try to target it.

Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

I also use a custom domain. Basically, as long as you accept that the domain might be linked to your IRL name, it's more of a privacy issue in that regard. The custom domain means you don't ever have to stick with one company forever, also. My email address is portable to any hosting service.

Spammers and scammers work in databases of hundreds of thousands of records they buy. Anything that doesn't immediately return a hit is chaff to be deleted. There's no incentive to root through thousands of credential combos and see if your human brain can see a pattern to tweak, short of targeted attacks about you as a person. If the custom domain doesn't stand out as a business with website worth sending ransomware, what's the reason to be a target? No one will waste time on a custom domain just in hopes of getting someone's 27 addresses just to send important dick pill meds spam.

I get zero spam after a year or so with a custom domain. My neutered gmail still gets flooded with spam.

huh, i'd try potus at whatever dot shit i'm taking more energy avoiding typing that but spite is one hell of a motivator. might work.

or a.scalia at scotus dot gov i'm pretty sure that one is real

I'm partial to president@whitehouse.gov. Trump can have My porn ads.

Also, 90% of the time, a@b.com works.

I'm always amused how often fuck@you.com works

10 Minute E-Mails are the best, you can confirm it exists, and they don't get any (usable) data

psst, if you have a catchall like that, you can probably SEND from anything@yourdomain.com too! We sure can.

You just need a client that lets you type in the From field. Some do, some don't.

-- Frost

Billionaire owner caters to bullshit ideals in their opinion pieces all the time. Lots of great journalists work for them and The Athletic though.

They're dogshit lol

They were founded as a reaction to the other big paper's european correspondent being sorta communist.

Theyve only gotten more reactionary since.