I had a spamgourmet account for quite some time now, and always found it to be a handy service. The idea is simple: You register the email address you want to protect (or rather forwarded to) and an associated username and then can give out disposable, self-destructing email addresses of the format <someid>.<limit>.<username>@spamgourmet.com, where someid is an id for a specific disposable address and limit defines the number of emails to let through before self-destruction.

I have used these addresses at “You have to register before…” stuff on the internet, like forums where I just had to do a quick search for something that demanded registration and other one-visit-that's-it-stops and never had issues.

But just now I received my first ever spam over my spam gourmet address, by some stupid adult side. The spammer used part of the site's domainname as someid and used a limit of 2 to inform me of wonderful special offerings in the world of porn¹⁾. Given such wonderful services like mailinator that exist these days and the fact that the average mailaddress is overrun by spam anyway, it's no big issue that spamgourmet just lost it's appeal thanks to those f***ing spammers, but I found it remarkable nevertheless and was rather surprised to see this.