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I'm nowhere near the top, but get these emails all the time. Want some of your own? Put your resume on any of the big job sites; just one is all it takes. You'll get calls and emails daily, usually several a day. Almost all of them will be a total waste of time. This is the recruiter spam they alude to.

Maybe it's just the information we put online, or maybe it's just the business, but I don't think it's a minority who have bad experiences with recruiters. I'd actually be really interested in hearing peoples' positive experiences, as they seem to be a very rare thing. I'm not trying to be cynical, this has just been my experience, enforced by just about every other developer I've talked to.