[rchaud]

Have you ever received any spam addressed to that account? I've signed up for countless services over the past decade, the only ones to ever spam me were university consulting groups back from the time I was applying to grad school.

[edent]

Yes. I frequently find services which - either maliciously or through incompetence - allow my email to be used for 3rd party spam.

Even some big companies aren't immune to a dodgy contractor walking off with a contact list.