I also hate fighting spam. I used to have my main account and having several descriptive aliases. So all my video game accounts used games [at] domain [dot] com, shop [at] domain [dot] com, media [at] domain [dot] com, etc. What I found interesting through this system was I could tell when my email accounts were leaked. I used to use social [at] domain [dot] com for my social media accounts, and since this was an alias and I obviously wouldn't be likely to give it out as a means to contact me, I could tell when I started getting email from random places that weren't newsletters. I am talking full spam; buy this watch, have a bride or two, the usual.

And it's because of that reason that I have moved on to my new aliasing system. I now use the year in hexadecimal format x7e1 [at] domain [dot] com( for obfuscation, so vendors don't know its an alias using just the year ). Now, all of the accounts I actually care about, I will switch their email addresses at the start of the new year. And anyone who gets hold of that address, fine. It'll go away in time anyway. It's been working out so far.

Sorry for the rant.