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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever been contacted to sell your user's ... by cperciva on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:46AM (#9837234)
I'll bet that's a URL-decoding bug -- space gets encoded as plus, so if they decoded an extra time your plus would turn into a space. I've made that mistake a few times myself.
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