Damn Smokey...don't be haterizing on me.
I read the story. I think it's been embellished to make it sound good. That's all. If you read it and believe it word for word...that's cool. Bottom line is NATS got screwed with. All our members got spammed with emails. Fucking sucks. Life goes on. Fixed it and keep making money.
Are you guys cool with the "On the black market, email addresses can be sold for 20 cents to several dollars each." line too?
I think that almost any webmaster who owns an affiliate program can tell you the TRUE price of email addresses...yes, even member site data bases. That shit gets traded around all the time in case y'all didn't know that.
Hell, I use Spam Arrest to keep my email free of spam...and yet when I was on the phone with a very prominent internet company that we all know and love and was telling the owner to make sure to verify himself because I used Spam Arrest...he laughed and told me that they had offered their entire data base to him the week before for a few hundred bucks! In other words his emails would go right through the system without being stopped! Hell, even I was shocked at that! LOL!
What I'm trying to say is that this "news" story is severely exaggerated in some of the things it is saying. I hate when people do that, because in my mind it takes away the credibility of a story that is important.