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Without saying that nastydollars did anything, let me say this:
make-money-as-a-porn-god-pimp.com program sells their webmaster list to make-more-money-fool.com, who spams the list. In order to recover their costs for buying the list, they also sell that list to a third party as "opt in valid emails looking for adult material". Then that third party resells it to every spamming monkey on the planet and you get mondo spam.
The first program did something not exactly correct but often tolderated in this business. The second company did a little worse, and by the third guy, he doesn't give a crap and just wants to make money.
It also happens too if mailings you get from a sponsor have CC instead of BCC in them, as those email addresses could be on a machine that gets hit with malware, which would collect every valid email address string on a machine and send it to the scammers. If you have ever had a back and forth with a sponsor and your machine or thier machine gets hit in this manner, well, then your address is out there and let the spam begin.
Alex
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