How do the spammers getting your email address, if you are careful not to post it anywhere?
I read they send email to every possible made-up address at a given domain, and if the email doesn't get bounced as undeliverable, they know they have a "live" address.
If that is true, would it help to choose something extremely convoluted as your email address? So, for example, not
zeke@domain.com but #z1-_%5hIj#2[{@domain.com?
I get a ton of spam myself, and am trying to figure out how to deal with it. The Thunderbird spam filter still lets through all the spam that uses an image rather than text. The Mac Mail spam filter works better.