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It's not your "HN" email address, it's the address you choose to put in your public HN profile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cassianoleal https://news.y

by dewey 4y ago

It's not your "HN" email address, it's the address you choose to put in your public HN profile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cassianoleal https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cassianoleal) so someone just scraped public HN accounts and sent unsolicited spam emails. Just like it happens with Github all the time.

heeton 4y ago
To add to this FYI: "SPAM" is the stylised trademark of a cooked pork brand. Spam is the name for unwanted nuisance email. https://it.cornell.edu/gsuite-gsuite-student-facstaff-email/what-spam https://it.cornell.edu/gsuite-gsuite-student-facstaff-email/...
cassianoleal 4y ago
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  Welp, it looks like that email was in my profile's `about:` box. I don't know how it ended up there but I don't recall doing it myself.
  - stark98 4y ago
    You should consider buying CO detector, I'm not even joking
    - cassianoleal 4y ago
      Carbon Monoxide? :) Thanks for the suggestion but I have a couple AQMs and the CO in my house is usually 0. If I did put my email there it was quite a while ago. It's not hard to forget something you did/saw once a long time ago and never looked at again.
- dewey 4y ago
  > That's untrue. I never made that choice. That's the email I use to sign-in to the service and I have no way of making it private. False, your HN account email is private (The "email" field if you look at your profile). That's the reason why people often comment "put your email in the about field so I can contact you". People falsely assume the account email is public.
  - cassianoleal 4y ago
    You're right, although I don't recall adding it there. It may have been an oversight on my part though. I have now removed it from there and will blackhole that account.
- deleted 4y ago
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reustle 4y ago
Are you sure the email in his profile isn’t different？
gpas 4y ago
But the email we use to login is not public, only admins can see it. How does it work with github?
- dewey 4y ago
  Github has a public email field, and you can also scrape the commit authors.

by dewey 4y ago

heeton 4y ago

To add to this FYI: "SPAM" is the stylised trademark of a cooked pork brand. Spam is the name for unwanted nuisance email. https://it.cornell.edu/gsuite-gsuite-student-facstaff-email/what-spam https://it.cornell.edu/gsuite-gsuite-student-facstaff-email/...

cassianoleal 4y ago

cassianoleal 4y ago
Welp, it looks like that email was in my profile's `about:` box. I don't know how it ended up there but I don't recall doing it myself.
- stark98 4y ago
  You should consider buying CO detector, I'm not even joking
  - cassianoleal 4y ago
    Carbon Monoxide? :) Thanks for the suggestion but I have a couple AQMs and the CO in my house is usually 0. If I did put my email there it was quite a while ago. It's not hard to forget something you did/saw once a long time ago and never looked at again.
dewey 4y ago
> That's untrue. I never made that choice. That's the email I use to sign-in to the service and I have no way of making it private. False, your HN account email is private (The "email" field if you look at your profile). That's the reason why people often comment "put your email in the about field so I can contact you". People falsely assume the account email is public.
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  You're right, although I don't recall adding it there. It may have been an oversight on my part though. I have now removed it from there and will blackhole that account.
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reustle 4y ago

Are you sure the email in his profile isn’t different？

gpas 4y ago

But the email we use to login is not public, only admins can see it. How does it work with github?

dewey 4y ago
Github has a public email field, and you can also scrape the commit authors.