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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by sokoloff on Monday August 15, 2022 @11:46AM (#32471160)
Similar here. I don't recall when I started doing it, but it's been at least 20 years. I get a fair amount of spam from "well, what did you expect?" addresses (social sites, mostly) and some from addresses that are hard to pin down (paypal address might be shared to a seller; amazon address is definitely shared to sellers).

The most surprising one is ongoing spam (and semi-legitimate contacts from recruiters) to an address that I only (intentionally) used at O'reilly. I just checked HIBP and that address was exposed in the July 2018 Apollo exposure.

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Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e... by Brian_K_White on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:30PM (#32472644)
I'd love a wall of shame that collected all these bad examples.

It would have to somehow be protected against bad actors scrubbing themselves by any other means than no longer being bad actors.

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