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Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve
I just want to comment on the words in bold above. I can assure you that no sponsor would sell a list of webmaster emails to someone who promotes adult websites. Compromised database? perhaps, but there is no value to either party (the sponsor selling a list or the spammer buying a list) in that transaction.
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Well whether it gets bundled in with customer email lists, sold as a webmaster email and eventually resold as a surfer email, sold by a rogue employee without the company's knowledge, or telepathically received by martians who love transmitting me their intergalactic spam, the fact remains that certain companies (sometimes repeatedly) have a problem with their webmaster email addresses getting out.
Now I've been told to never attribute to malice what can be chalked up as mere stupidity, but either way, sold or comprimised - it ain't good.
Spam didn't used to bother me, heck I even said "just delete it and forget it" a few times... until I started getting over 80,000 emails a day. I couldn't find any spam filter able to deal with that signal to noise ratio. Eventually I ended up removing hundreds of my domains from my mailserver just so I could whittle it down to a manageable 5,000 emails a day.
Do you know what it's like to dread going on vacation, because you know you'll come back to 50,000 emails to sort through? Now I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm pissed off, but I'm not wildly throwing around accusations. Some of my webmaster email addresses that I hinted at in my last post get over 200 spams a day, I've even changed the email address, and had the new one start getting spam within a week. It's gotten to the point where I started droping sponsors simply because I can't be bothered to hunt for a legitimate email from their program amidst all the spam.