Dean Robb writes:
The misuse aspect has come about because spammers (primarily) have bots that will harvest all the addresses in WhoIs and send them their drivel.
Contact handles are predictable. All you need to do in a bot is try all the permutations of 2 or 3 letters, with or without -ORG at the end, and increment numbers until nothing is found. That will get you perhaps 99% of the handles. Handles should instead be generated in an unpredictable way, such as MD5. -- Phil Howard | stop3it8@s9p1a4m9.net suck7it4@dumb4ads.com blow2me7@spammer7.com phil | blow7me9@dumbads1.com eat0this@s4p2a4m7.com crash760@dumbads9.org at | no1spam5@no34ads2.edu end2it40@s3p5a8m6.edu eat4this@noplace7.org milepost | suck9it9@no5where.com stop8it5@spammer1.org w7x7y8z3@s2p8a7m3.com dot | blow8me3@noplace5.org no46ads3@no99ads7.org suck0it3@no23ads5.edu com | no46ads7@no9place.net w9x2y9z5@anywhere.com eat1this@noplace7.org