It took nearly a year since the last time my entity-reference-encoded email address got spam, but it’s happened again, so I guess it’s time to change it. fpcraig is dead; long live blogboy.
As an experiment, and because I knew I’d be deactivating fpcraig soon anyway, I tried the “remove me” link provided in the first piece of spam fpcraig received. Within three and a half hours, the second piece arrived, and within 15 hours, the address received the latest worm. By comparison, my primary email address receives an average of one piece of spam a week, and has never been sent a worm (other than from a dear, but somewhat careless, friend). And yes, I can read the headers: the spam and the worm all came through standard spammer channels (originating on (or at least relayed through) machines in dialup IP space, and sent to my secondary MXer); so far, my dear friend seems to be clean.
On the downside, now I’m getting dictionary-spammed. Crap.