identified.com: Likely not worth your time

[rax]

So identified.com came to my attention today because it is sending email, gradually, to every email address and mailing list at MIT. I am still on a number of mailing lists at MIT, including some that haven't been used in many years, and they are all getting email in alphabetical order. (Does anyone know what sh-leech-wrestling@mit.edu was even for

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[rainfae]

I'm not cool enough to get any...

[trashbag_helmet]

Just came here from a search on Google (searched "identified.com email")

Just received a few of these emails this morning from an old classmate through the classes we shared in Georgia Tech's "T-Square" class management system. Seems to be directly from one person who I'm guessing did a "share all", but just thought I'd share. it's unfortunate because I might actually have been interested if I weren't worried about them using my email to spam.

[rax]

Thanks for the additional info! It looks like they just take anything that's an email address and assume that it's a person, which is deeply disappointing from an engineering team who should know better.