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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by mirimir on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:57PM (#21612374)
Seriously?

How the hell could she think that your email address was hers? I mean, wouldn't she notice that she never got the messages?

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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by Spooky23 on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:40PM (#21612507)
Totally serious. There are about a dozen people who regularly do this. One guy has missed 4-5 job interviews.
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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by mirimir on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:55PM (#21612552)
So is it typos? Like one letter off?

I can imagine someone mistyping an address, and then reusing the "to" link.

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