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They do on usenet! Know this for a fact, as one of my two usenet addresses 
is a reverse spam block ("nospam" as a valid part) and it routinely receives 
spam CC'd to the de-munged version.

No proof, but have read that spamers pay people to manually de-mung 
addresses in high traffic groups.

Currently the most effective way to hide a valid address is in the reply-to 
header. (Reply-to is not included in the more common types of overviews, or 
"headers" pulled.) Obviously this would be impractical on a mailing list.

Once harvested an address will receive spam forever. However, I have 
personally observed both a decline over time to an idle address, and a huge 
sudden spike when it starts getting fresh harvest spam.
-- 
William


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