It means the SDMB (and the people who own it) won’t sell the contents of the database to sites that will spam you. It’s not unusual for magazines to do this, for example.
I Think all Mods/Admins should remove all dopers from their email contact lists, but I'll settle ...
The only recourse is to assume a new identity and relocate to Rio.
I want to say something pitworthy. I won’t.
If you want your info kept private, it’s incumbent upon you to keep it that way. If you sent email to anyone, your address is irretrievably out there. So are the contents of the messages you sent. Anonymous Proxy Servers are your friends. Mass-market email services (such as Yahoo) are, too. So are Facebook and Linkedin, if you figure out how to use them, that way.
I’ve got several accounts, on all those services. But if I use them unwisely, then I’ll be creating a potential chain from one to the other, to the next, to all of them. And then none of them are anonymous, anymore. Keeping them clean is my responsibility. I can’t expect anyone else to care. If it’s important to you, then it’s *your * responsibility, too.
If you want that same anonymity, it’s your responsibility to accomplish it. Not the people you’ve sent email to. Ed Zotti’s got no reason to care about your issue, here, dude. Suck it up. Take responsibility for your own identity.
Definitely First World Problem. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: You’ld be amazed what I could do at this point. Just STFU. Don’t make me do it. I’d probably make it look good. Just ignore the bodies…
Two things:
First
Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!
As near as I could tell from a former boss’ Yahoo email their approach to spam is to open the door wide open and holler to the spammers “Come on in, the water’s fine.”
Secondly don’t you think you are over reacting just a tad? Jumping Christ on a pogo stick if you are using Yahoo you must be used to getting a ton of spam what is one or two more LinkedIn?
I believe someone is has begin to act maliciously toward me, probably after reading this thread and deciding to teach me a lesson. In the past hour I’ve received 5 different welcomes to various kinds of websites/clubs for things I’ve never been anywhere near, but I seem to have joined, using my current gmail address and the user name that I use here and nowhere else.
This is unacceptable. I don’t know if it’s possible, but I wonder if it’s possible to find out who has accessed my my user data in the last couple hours and take some kind of action.
This seems to be happening a lot. Someone who is on my Ignore list recently (falsely) suggested I might be doing the same thing to him. Seriously. I just want to say before anyone asks if it’s me that no, I’m not doing that to you.
Do you know of other cases? Has anyone done a Pit thread or something else complaining about it? And I never would have thought of you as the perpetrator, we’ve exchanged a lot of friendly posts.
However, they always say it’s the one you least suspect…
I only know of the one, because a Mod sent me a message asking if it was me, presumably after being contacted by the person in question. Obviously, since the person in question is on my Ignore list, he could not contact me directly.
Well, you had your gmail adress publicly available until sometime today. It’s no longer there, but I know it was last night(at least, I think it was).
Good start.
We mods/admins have no way to know who accesses your user data(whatever that is).
Yes, it was my fault because I didn’t expect another member to use my data maliciously.
Can you tell me who can look at my data, or could before I shut it? Can lurkers? Guests? Members? Which of these groups, or all of them?
I have just received nearly 100 more of these shit emails, all from different features of the same website. The total is up to about 120 now.
Dude, does it matter? You’ve learned a lesson here. If you start a thread like this and leave your email address visible to the public, there are jerks who will use it to mess with you.
This is the fucking internet.
What does it matter if they were members or not?
Jesus. The person I mentioned is such a world-class creep that I had considered he may have been simply making false accusations as a way to keep annoying me since he knows he’s on my Ignore list. But now I’m wondering just how common this sort of thing is.
It matters because I want to know, and I don’t care in the least about your opinion. I’m pissed off, and that’s good enough for now.
Sorry, Boyo - that sucks.
Ok, then.
Create a filter to send all emails originating from that website to the trash. Or block the senders. Or both. It doesn’t solve the problem of someone using your email for douchey crap but it keeps your inbox clean. As long as your password is secure, you’re safe though. All they can do is make an account for you and if you don’t confirm its registration, it will remain unactivated.
You know, for all the shit I’m getting from people in this thread about vast ignorance of internet privacy, I have been very careful. No one has ever hacked any of my email accounts, I have never hit a wrong button and exposed my contact list to any site. And I had a Facebook account and a LinkdIn account, until I shut them down because they themselves were spamming me too much. But I didn’t ever open up my contacts to them because I didn’t want any of my friends pestered either.
As far as I can tell, the only way to be safe is to have a separate email address for each and every entity that I ever correspond with. I will give up internet correspondence before I do that.
And I don’t see any problem at all with asking one of very few sites I’ve remained a part of to take some minimal extra precautions to protect my address, and yours.
And I am appalled at the response. Every single leak of my gmail address has come from here. I haven’t had this account for very long, only six months or so, but until a couple of days ago I hadn’t received even one single spam main in my inbox, or even routed to my spam box.
Now I have more than a hundred, thanks to someone here.
…unfortunately you won’t be able to do much about this. This message board is full of some of the most wonderful people you could hope to meet. There is also a tiny subsection of snarky, immature bullies who have nothing better to do with their lives. 
I’ve struck them before. As Inner Stickler suggests: filter out the email, put your head down and move on.
Thank you, I know how to cope with spam after many years with Yahoo, the Spam King.