I noticed that Outlook Express was doing the wrong thing with the LF character at the beginning of my address, so I’ve changed it to a space. If the spam bots are smart enough to remove the space, I’ll have to do something else. Since they weren’t smart enough to remove the line feed, I’m trying to remain optimistic.
Update: spam bots apparently are smart enough to take out the space. I’m trying a vertical tab character now. Outlook does the right thing; I’ll check OE as soon as I remember. Odds are good I’ll have to change the alias, though, since I have gotten a spam attempt. I’ll keep the mailto links up to date, and try to remember to keep any other in-line mentions clean, too.