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There's plenty of good reasons not to make it easy for random internet strangers to contact you. It's hacker news, not stalker news.

• jacobolus 16y ago
  Why would you list wrong contact info? That seems pretty counterproductive.
  • zackattack 16y ago
    maybe if you are posting under an alias and want to throw people off the scent? it's emotionally useful to post, and sometimes internet sleuths like to track down anons. hopefully nobody's posting disinformation but didn't someone less than a year ago come out with a script that tried to guess the writer of some text based on their punctuation, capitalization, blah blah blah parameters? meh.
  • tjpick 16y ago
    It's probably not malicious. The dude just probably forgot to update it. Or was getting too much spam and started blocking a bunch of stuff. Or made a typo. I was just saying that not everyone has to let themselves be contacted. I didn't say you should post misinformation.