Re:Tell HN: Consider listing your contact details
by paulgb on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:48PM
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Similar stats for me since 2016:
- only one piece of complete spam
- one targeted commercial outreach (which actually ended up being useful)
- four people following up on comments that ended up being interesting conversations. I even went for coffee with one.
- one person who evidently confused my username and thought I was @pg
In my HN profile, I use a unique throw-away address that is specific to this site.
It's been harvested in the past. I think only once? At most twice, in any case.
My currently installed alias, the one with a 997-169-9629 local part before the domain, was created on "2020-07-01 16:14 PDT". Almost exactly a year and a month ago. It was used for a couple of legitimate mails; no spam so far.