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by lrobb 5228 days ago
Back in "the day", users were bombarded with warnings to never give out their email address, lest something bad happen... at one point in time, if you did post your email publicly, it would quickly become unusable as the spam tools & regulations were way behind the spammers. I'm sure there's still a huge contingent out there afraid of putting their email into the wild.