NT spam?
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- chl0
We do not *ever* sell or give away users' email addresses. Ever.
Unfortunately, they are there in users profile pages, where they could theoretically get picked up.
But we hate SPAM just as much as you do. I personally get over 400 a day. So we never, ever, ever give user addresses out. Ever.
- versa0
cool thx for the 'inside' perspective
- heavyarms0
Thanks for the response Chris. Any chance of NT implementing a nospam script on the addresses in the future?
- jox0
Nobody suspected that you guys did either, chl. Personally I'm just amazed how intelligent the "sniffers" seem to be, to locate all the addresses.
Imagine what I could do if I changed some code in it so it located great free porn instead.
...Wow, I'm thinking out loud!
- jevad0
Yeah I wasn't insinuating that NT were selling or giving away email db's!!
- 2cent0
We do not *ever* sell or give away users' email addresses. Ever.
Unfortunately, they are there in users profile pages, where they could theoretically get picked up.
But we hate SPAM just as much as you do. I personally get over 400 a day. So we never, ever, ever give user addresses out. Ever.
chl
(apr 13 04, 14:15)well execpt for Diesel.
- heavyarms0
Another weird thing, my alias email address has been signed up for IGN and CNet. The IGN account is registered to some dude named Bernard McKinley. I don't know how or why he is using my address (if it's even legitimate) unless it's a mistake.
- ********0
For places like NT, I always use a mailinator account. No need to register, no worries about spam... ;)
- heavyarms0
Anyone know how my address could've been used to sign up for IGN, C-Net, etc. (See 2 posts back)?
- jox0
wow, didn't know about that mailinator thingy. Thanks!
- blaw0
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Thanks for the mailinator link. That's great.
- smoothblend0
First you have to know how the e-mail(spam) collectors work. All a person has to do is type in a URL and it will pull everything with and store it in the program.
So all someone would have to do is type in newstoday.com and boom, guy just got himself alot of e-mail addresses. I havent seen one of these programs in a while but I do know they exist.