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I have had the same email address continuously since 1994 - pre-dating the PIR database of domain registration dates. At a rough estimate I receive about half of the spam email that exists on the internet. Some of it is pretty funny or helps narrow down data leaks to the source. I have been able to connect a few targeted campaigns to the HN hiring threads:

  - Business development spam (finance, lead generation, marketing, staffing), all of it addressed entities unrelated to me personally.
  - Stalking from estranged family members, leading to restraining orders.
  - Multi-level-recruiter referral pyramid schemes
  - Fake sextortion threats from third-world spammers
  - Grand total of Zero actual recruiters or hiring managers.

Still worth it for me for the interesting reading.

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I used a unique masked email (and account) for my "Who's Hiring post". Some of the spam it's received afterwards is hilarious. The best was a masked email service berating me for posting personal info on the public internet and how the right thing to do is sign up for their masked email service instead.

The thread generated a few leads though, so at least it was more effective than my previous employer's "relocation assistance". I received nothing from that except a bizarre deluge of offers from bodybuilding life coaches and money mule scams.

1994? that's pretty amazing

what's the email "category"? an edu? I don't want to dox you but curious about what sort of institution has had that sort of stability enough to have kept your spot in place.

GP links their wevsite with email and home (?!) address in their bio here, so I don't think doxxing is much of a concern! I'm seeing a creation date of 1998 on that domain as well, which is farther back than my knowledge of internet history goes, so I am guessing that is the domain/email address in question.

1998 is when the registration was transferred from AlterNIC to InterNIC: which is only part of that story. The original WHOIS record history has been lost to time (and ext2 filesystem bit-rot).

I was thinking about reaching out via email to HN support to manually delete my one post there. I've been getting tons of spam referencing it, and it was years ago.

Figure it's all scraped and archived by now, though.

Any email scraped is added to a list that then just gets sold/shared and I highly doubt data ever gets removed from a list like that. So once the post has been scanned, removing it will not provide you the joy you might be hoping for

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