Claude Montpetit -- Montpetit.net -- en

When I am forced to enter my email address before a download, or during a subscription process, I very rarely use my main email address. Instead, I use an email address that contains the web site where I am submitting this information. For example, if I subscribe to JDJ for whatever reason, I will use the email address jdj@mydomain.net where mydomain, of course, is replaced with one of my domain names. This does not prevent spam to end up in my mailbox: anything sent to my domain ends up in my inbox (filter rules may be applied to these incoming messages but this is not the point.) Using these addresses, I can identify the sites that do not respect their own privacy policy.

JDJ. Java Developers Journal. This company is the worst of all identifiable subscriptions I made. I keep receiving spam sent to jdj@mydomain.net. Generally, it comes from JDJ, but today, I received something from Verisign sent to this address. So Verisign is a spammer as well. JDJ sells its readers email addresses to other companies. JDJ is a spammer.