scott wrote:

> It's funny, because just the other day one of my friends sent me an 
> invite. So I made an account, and I seem to be automatically "connected" 
> to my friend, but I have no idea how to find or add you...

Heh, well well, let me see now...

The NNTP headers of your message record your IP address. A quick WHOIS 
query of the RIPE database tells me that this address belongs to a very 
well-known major electronics manufacturer. It also gives a location - 
Germany. (This vaguely fits what I remember you saying.)

Searching LinkedIn for a "Scott" located in Germany working for this 
company gives me a single hit - somebody working in the Munich area as a 
Senior Engineer, in the "automotice" field, educated at Cambridge. So it 
seems fairly likely that's you then.

But I need to pay money to send you an invite. ;-)

[Apparently this is an anti-spam feature. I like that; charging people 
money is a "feature".]

I'm not actually sure what information you'd need to be able to make 
contact. Maybe just my real name? (Which, as Gilles points out, is 
unfortunately trivially findable...)

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