It turns out that the fediverse is not immune to spammers. I keep my direct mentions open on purpose, but there's been two spammers now. I prefer to not make it harder to reach me for legitimate purposes, but I'm now worried.

There's an email account I got from a regional ISP back in 1999 that I still use. This 20th-century email address STILL gets #spam directed to the woman (by first and last name, as in "Dear Deeza Nutso, we are trying to reach you about your auto war4anty") who had it before I did.

Which only goes to show you, we have #email #spammers out there who are circulating and using spam-target lists that are very damned near a quarter-century old.