Personally, I don't think you over-reacted. We should all take great to protect personal data as much as possible. I think this is a good reminder for us all.

I have a link in a bookmark file lying around somewhere, a Usenet post, recorded Deja/Google's archive. Some poor fool posted his credit card number on a newsgroup.

Fortunately we can rectify such mistakes here on this site. On Usenet, you're out of luck.

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