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by isoprophlex 1030 days ago
You're completely right of course, and I hadn't considered that.

However, there's apparently people scraping and reselling (or bribing employees, dunno) corporate directories. In my case everyone has firstname.lastname@corpo.com, so judging by the high volumes of creepy ass, targeted corporate spam I get on my work mail... this is hardly a public secret.