The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses • Hacker News Board

Re: The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses

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Post by chronomex » Sat, May 25, 2013, 11:39 PM UTC

anxx wrote: post #18

mindcrime wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is super useful, even though It wouldn't give me the email I was looking for, it would show me the "structure" used for emails inside the company: Based on that I would just guest the email of the person and it used to work perfectly. I've used this technique a bit, but a word of warning... it's definitely not always the case that all emails in a given firm match "the structure". Usually most of them do, but I have f…

Related question: is there a limit on email address length? Like a real fundamental limit, not arbitrary decisions Gmail or Yahoo folks might have come up with.

Header lines are limited to 998 characters (1000 - '\r\n'). Subtract 'To: ' (4 characters) and one practical maximum upper limit is 994 characters including domain.

Re: The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses

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Post by jsemrau » Sun, May 26, 2013, 2:45 AM UTC

Norman? This is Mr. Eddie Vedder, from Accounting. I just had a power surge here at home that wiped out a file I was working on.

Re: The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses

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Post by lostlogin » Sun, May 26, 2013, 3:29 AM UTC

jabbernotty wrote: post #12

ternaryoperator wrote: post #5

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> He forwards me headhunter emails all the time that are addressed to variations of my first and last name. Sure he's not trying to tell you something? :-|

Apart from "the right thing", one might see this particular behaviour as "quite polite". It is also better for the relationship. It signifies trust. And every time you hold something back (or lie) you risk damaging a relationship. In this instance, a recruiter might reach out to the employee some other way. The recruiter and employee would then figure out that the business owner may have withheld the mail, even thoug…

Yes. Do the right thing, you might get credit for it. Do the wrong thing, and sometime, sooner or later, it'll pop up and kick you in the arse.

Re: The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses

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Post by micro-ram » Sun, May 26, 2013, 5:06 AM UTC

jsemrau wrote: post #22

Norman? This is Mr. Eddie Vedder, from Accounting. I just had a power surge here at home that wiped out a file I was working on.

My BLT drive just went AWOL!

Re: The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses

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Post by elchief » Sun, May 26, 2013, 7:26 AM UTC

anxx wrote: post #18

mindcrime wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is super useful, even though It wouldn't give me the email I was looking for, it would show me the "structure" used for emails inside the company: Based on that I would just guest the email of the person and it used to work perfectly. I've used this technique a bit, but a word of warning... it's definitely not always the case that all emails in a given firm match "the structure". Usually most of them do, but I have f…

Related question: is there a limit on email address length? Like a real fundamental limit, not arbitrary decisions Gmail or Yahoo folks might have come up with.