@jerry Attended a tech conference some years ago, and used a conference-specific email forwarder.

That email was used exclusively for the conference, and received only conference-related mail — until ~four years later, the newly-reorganized organizers and other senders all started spamming that email.

Old databases don’t go away.

But that email forwarder sure did.

@HoffmanLabs @jerry

yup. i've had "single use" emails that were dormant for over 12 years suddenly start spewing spam. i also regularly get spam to emails that have never existed (i've been only owner of the domain name) and never worked. a couple of these broken emails have been hit for decades.

old databases don't go away and are never cleaned up. just resold to other spammers.