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this is happening more and more often. Use a fake/anonymous email address for GitHub:

https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...

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Don't worry, if they know your name and domain, they will try to figure out your email address ;-)

https://github.com/Gradberry/Email-Permutator

http://gb-emailvalidator.azurewebsites.net/

https://github.com/Gradberry/Email-Permutator/blob/master/pe...

Also https://github.com/Gradberry/Email-Permutator/blob/master/in...

    Sorry brah....All fields must be populated!!

Also:

> To see it running, test it out here http://gb-emailvalidator.azurewebsites.net/

> Please play nice with our hosting server, it takes a while for it to run since its stored on a shared windows machine

On the bright side, this thing fails to actually find me at either of the domains where I regularly use e-mail. One is hosted on Exchange, the other Google Apps

Feels like spamming software that was in vogue in the 1990s.

These tools are tools for spammers. Sorry - but come on guys. Read up on the laws!

Nono, they are leveraging the market opportunity to generate viral leads with growth hacking.

Buy ads, call people and ask politely if you can send them more information.

But don't spam.

GP was being sarcastic

> call people and ask

I'd rather get emails -_-

In https://github.com/Gradberry/Email-Permutator/blob/master/sm... it looks like they are validating the recipients by starting to send an email, then reset the connection after the recipients email address get accepted or rejected.

Dos that old trick still work? I thought that (at least the big guys) quickly banned an ip address trying this. And if they don't this may be a good time to start!

This is exactly what I do when subscribing to public mailing lists (and I use the same email in my .gitconfig).

I have a personal domain for email, and use an alias lists@domain.com so I can easily filter emails. If it's not related to a list or service I'm subscribed to, it automatically goes to the bin.

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