That is exactly the problem I had (though it was an address from '97), and I had the same solution. I have given my e-mail address out for years, to people in different parts of the world, and I always said that if they could remember the domain name that I own, an e-mail with almost any variation of my name would get to me. That was before SPAM. The days where I received 100 or more e-mails left me pulling out my hair, and god forbid the occasional week long trips or long weekends where I was not able to check my e-mail. For awhile I had two e-mail clients set up so that I had to scan my e-mail twice, just so I was sure I was not accidently deleting real e-mail (you know, you sort of zone-out hitting the delete button).
Anway, not wanting to miss an e-mail from an old friend somewhere in the world, I realized that setting up an automatic form letter e-mail reply telling them to go to a website-form where they could request my real e-mail address was the solution. I know that none of the spammers are getting that form reply (it simply says, "Sorry, but you've sent an e-mail to my junk mail account. Your e-mail will never be read.") but anyone who really cares will, and they will be able to track me down.
Here I tought I was the only one with this idea : )
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That is exactly the problem I had (though it was an address from '97), and I had the same solution. I have given my e-mail address out for years, to people in different parts of the world, and I always said that if they could remember the domain name that I own, an e-mail with almost any variation of my name would get to me. That was before SPAM. The days where I received 100 or more e-mails left me pulling out my hair, and god forbid the occasional week long trips or long weekends where I was not able to check my e-mail. For awhile I had two e-mail clients set up so that I had to scan my e-mail twice, just so I was sure I was not accidently deleting real e-mail (you know, you sort of zone-out hitting the delete button).
Anway, not wanting to miss an e-mail from an old friend somewhere in the world, I realized that setting up an automatic form letter e-mail reply telling them to go to a website-form where they could request my real e-mail address was the solution. I know that none of the spammers are getting that form reply (it simply says, "Sorry, but you've sent an e-mail to my junk mail account. Your e-mail will never be read.") but anyone who really cares will, and they will be able to track me down.
Here I tought I was the only one with this idea : )