Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres...
by gvb on Sunday September 30, 2012 @09:06PM
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1. Modern e-mail providers do filter out most spam, but it doesn't hurt to help lighten their load.
2. My pet theory is that the people making money out of spam are not the spammers, it is the people selling lists of email addresses. Hey, I just cut their total of email addresses by a vanishingly small fraction.
3. I lived through 1997. It wasn't pretty. Old habits die hard.
4. I consider my obfuscation to be the signature of a hacker. :-P
P.S. Your email is not visible in your information (the email entry in your account registration is not publicly visible, you have to put it in your "about" box to make it visible).
2. My pet theory is that the people making money out of spam are not the spammers, it is the people selling lists of email addresses. Hey, I just cut their total of email addresses by a vanishingly small fraction.
3. I lived through 1997. It wasn't pretty. Old habits die hard.
4. I consider my obfuscation to be the signature of a hacker. :-P
P.S. Your email is not visible in your information (the email entry in your account registration is not publicly visible, you have to put it in your "about" box to make it visible).