Ask HN: Have you been receiving spam from the freelancer's thread?

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I usually post something in the Seeking Freelancer's thread once a month, and lately, I've noticed a significant amount of spam coming to the address I list as a contact. It's always in the form of "Hire us for SEO, Web Design, & Development!"

Anyone else running into this?

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I've also gotten this spam, and I haven't posted in that thread. I think it came (but it's hard to say for sure) as a result of me posting in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5389150; or at least it came soon thereafter.

I don't even have my email address anywhere on HN. It's easy to find it via the URL in my profile, but someone must be dong more than just scraping HN itself.

I've had a couple over the past month and none that I can recall from earlier.

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