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> 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.

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.

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.

You should consider buying CO detector, I'm not even joking

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.

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