[PSA] Joost sells email addresses

steve harley steve at paper-ape.com
Mon Mar 5 08:52:36 PST 2007


they whom i call Mary H. wrote:
> I don't think you can be certain that Joost sold your address. The spam 
> could have been the result of Directory Harvest.

it's hard to infer that from the little Steven told us, but it is 
a reminder that when creating unique aliases for email signups, 
make them really unique -- i often add the date to mine; i've 
caught a few surprising miscreants over the years, most recently 
Rodale press




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