Now ANYONE on Google+ can email you, with or without your email addy

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Your wishes have been granted: Google has quietly added a new "feature" to Gmail that allows anyone with a Google+ account to send you email even if they don't know your actual email address.…

via The Register - Networks

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/10/googleplus_gmail_email_addresses/