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US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the liars-damn-liars-and-statisticians dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After receiving around 10 thousand comments about a government proceeding and after promising not to reveal personal info from those comments online, the US Treasury department decided to post email addresses of those who commented online. Sounds like they don't want any more comments about government proceedings. The email harvesters are going to have a great time."

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  1. Re:You neglect one important point... by ortcutt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Including all the off-shore spammers? I hope your comment was supposed to funny, because it made me laugh.

  2. Re: CAN Spam by Quantum-Sci · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We have anti-spam laws now. Those will stop the spammers and email harvesters.

    Recommend you broaden your news diet a little bit.

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    Campaign finance reform is national security.