[doktrin]

Especially considering the context. It seemed pretty clear that the user was posting the email address publicly for the first time.

That is just awful, and is an awkward example of why you may not want unpaid, mostly un-vetted volunteers as the public face of a company.

[sordidfellow]

Thank you!

I was wary of this thread showing up on HN because I felt I was a bit unkind when posting in that thread, but Chris' comment towards me seemed completely unjustified. And he deleted a prior post along the same lines, hence why I quoted him on my next post.

[SomeCallMeTim]

I also use unique addresses for every site, and while my Dropbox email wasn't compromised, I've occasionally gotten that response from tech support elsewhere.

You mean that [e-mail] was randomly compromised, but NO OTHER random email was mailed to me? No, that's not how spammers work. If they'd decided to spam tim-*, I would have gotten hundreds of emails...sigh...