I get regular spam to several such addresses at my domain. I set my personal
address to be a catch-all, so that I can use any address I like and invent
ones on the fly when I want to (a subdomain of mine uses an address that
doesn't exist, for example).
Be careful. I do the same thing, but about a month ago, I started getting email to "ted", "alex", "mary", etc @mydomain -- just random first names. I don't recall if it was a spam or a virus, but I had to add a long list to the router. They're all tagged as spamtraps. Fortunately, it died down, once there were about 10 or so names listed.
As an alternate, I was considering setting up a limited catch-all, which would only allow email through that fit a pattern, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haven't had to yet, but I still might. (It would be nice if you could alter your email address on the fly in Apple Mail -- I've heard that you can in Eudora.)
However, that means that I keep picking up mail directed to webmaster@,
sales@ and even contact@, which is a pain. I've set sales@ to redirect
everything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (*evil grin*), and Webmaster auto-responds telling
the sender to use the address found on the site (so one day I'll need to go
clear that account out). I should really set webmaster@ to bounce to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] too, seeing as my real address is plenty easy to find for any real
visitors, and anyone mailing me at webmaster@ is a clueless fsck :P
I would just set them up to route to "error", so the other side gets a proper bounce. That way you don't even bother eating up any of your bandwidth accepting the email body and mail just doesn't disappear from the Internet.
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