More than 3 years ago I moved from a single gmail address that had a ton of spam, to a Fastmail wildcard domain with a rule for each individual/company that ema

More than 3 years ago I moved from a single gmail address that had a ton of spam, to a Fastmail wildcard domain with a rule for each individual/company that emails me. I use a randomly generated, 7-character username created from a-z and 0-9 for each address, stored in my password manager. eg. The email address for my Reddit account might be rkd64id@example.com. While I think this scheme is perfection in terms of privacy and security in knowing which company sells or breaches my email address... the fact is I haven't gotten a single unsolicited email in the entire 3+ years. Not a single message that hit a spam/junk filter, and not one email that wasn't expected based on whitelisted rules. The closest exception is Amazon who shares your email address with their shippers for delivery notifications; while I do receive 3rd party mail regarding legitimate Amazon deliveries, I've never received any spam to that Amazon address. I have come to a conclusion as to why I have never received a single spam email since switching to this scheme. When I transitioned my GitHub account away from the old gmail address, I used the privacy option to not publish my REAL email address in Git logs pushed to GitHub. I deleted my old repos, and re-imported using the GitHub-wrapped email address. Thus I surmise that for those of us who are developers pushing code to public Git repositories, the vast majority of the spam you receive is because your email address can be very easily scraped from those Git logs. I expect to migrate back to a single email address in the future, for a singular reason: as I get older I cannot imagine managing these email filters and password manager entries. Eventually I will need to simplify things.