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Re:The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 by lostlogin on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:36PM (#18269073)
Why is it like that? Do they give out your phone number or postal address if you contact them via those channels?
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Re:The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 by riquito on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:44PM (#18269120)
I suppose they treat e-mail addresses as street addresses. Public and not tied to anything else by default (you know it exists but not who is assigned to)
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