Title: I've been noticing that just about everyone on HN uses some form of e-mail concealment (e.g. [myusername]@gmail.com), and I'm wondering why.<p>The fear of spam crawlers seems very 1997, especially if you're using a modern e-mail provider. I've had my e-mail address public and mailtod on multiple high-visibility sites for about 5 years now, and I can't remember the last spam e-mail I've gotten. Is this practice just a vestige of Internet-past, or is there some other reason I'm missing?
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