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I'm not particularly afraid of... (archive)
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Posted by Alan on September 09, 2001 at 19:28:25:

In Reply to: Believe it or not I don't buy anything online or posted by RevHigh on September 09, 2001 at 19:23:36:

...online information storage, but I am paranoid about spam just from the point of view of it being an annoyance. That's why I go to the trouble of using a completely different email address with each and every online site from which I buy...and I buy things online often. I do it just so I know who to send upset emails to when I start receiving spam. I've had even big names like Intel "share" my email address with spammers--not cool.

I feel really strongly that such tactics are very wrong, which is one of the reasons this site won't ever do something like that.

For what it's worth, I don't trust Paypal and certainly not MSN/Hotmail. :)

I don't doubt that your email address could be harvested from postings here. What probably happened is just what you said--one of the spam robots that spiders the web looking for email addresses picked yours up, and once that happened, it got onto spam lists all over the place. I think that it doesn't happen too commonly with this site though, otherwise I should be receiving a ton of spam as a result of my postings here too.


Alan

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