posted on February 17, 2002 07:01:41 AM
recently i posted my email address on one of the threads .
then i start getting 20 emails a day from a website which has to do with making marijuana legal in this country.
i asked the website admin to remove my email addr from their mailing list,they told me they cant find my email addr on their list,only 25 people are receiving daily bombardment of marijuana use news and they dont understand how i get on the list.
finally i forwarded one of their emails back to them and they were able to trace it-it is coming from my username on AW.
i dont know who is doing this,has this happened to anyone else who posted thier email addr on this forum??
posted on February 17, 2002 07:37:13 AM
if you use your [email protected] it will go to your email box.... I just found out after getting 20 or so spam emails.
posted on February 17, 2002 08:19:26 AM
I have only received one and I could tell by the title it was something I didn't want to open so I discarded it. The only place I go on my computer is ebay and AW, so I guess sooner or later we all will be caught in that web. Very disguisting...
posted on February 17, 2002 08:54:43 AM
Yahoo Auctions has a 'Question & Answer' setup that goes through them so no email harvesting is possible unless the member places it in their auction description or possibly has it as their user name. I'd like to see eBay adopt this method of protecting email addresses ( and they could reduce the amount of off-venue transactions ).
