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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by as1mov on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:14PM (#23069819)
It's kinda risky in my opinion. I just checked a few of the addresses (mostly the one's without any numbers at the end), some of them do actually belong to real people.
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by doronlinder on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:32PM (#23070894)
I was aiming for a feeling of dealing with real data (even though it's not). Changing the email domain names to fictitious ones will solve this, but I think would undermine the feeling of real-ness.
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by henryfjordan on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:26PM (#23070812)
What's the risk? Your email address isn't exactly a secret...
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Re:Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving ... by as1mov on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:54AM (#23076932)
Well it's not exactly a risk, but people might get miffed their email is part of some website without their permission.

Also, in a rather grim coincidence, one of the emails I googled belonged to a person who had died in a car crash few years ago.

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