# When I don't subscribe to SDMB, will my email address be removed from SDMB mailing li **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 19, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263 "2004-03-19T19:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SwingWing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SwingWing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwingWing)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/1 "2004-03-19T19:19:54Z")
When I don’t subscribe to SDMB, will my email address be removed from SDMB junk mailing lists? Clearly, I don’t want any more junk mail coming to my email address due to previously signing up on SDMB when it was free. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/2 "2004-03-19T20:44:23Z")
I can assure the SDMB does not currently use your e-mail address for anything like you suggest. And I think it **highly** unlikely that they’ll do so in the future. ---
**Author:** ![SwingWing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SwingWing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwingWing)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/3 "2004-03-19T21:25:26Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > I can assure the SDMB does not currently use your e-mail address for anything like you suggest. And I think it **highly** unlikely that they’ll do so in the future. Then why did my spam almost double after I signed up on SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/4 "2004-03-20T04:26:33Z")
If that is happening, it can only be a coincidence. I haven’t gotten a single piece of spam (or other email, for that matter) as a result of my membership. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/5 "2004-03-20T12:32:27Z")
Ditto ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/6 "2004-03-20T13:25:41Z")
Me three - it has to be a coincidence. I created the address I use here when I signed up, and I have never gotten any spam on the account. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/7 "2004-03-20T16:14:31Z")
No spam here, either. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/8 "2004-03-20T18:40:01Z")
I dont get spam either. Perhaps you put your e-mail address in an unsafer place around the same time? Another message board? Or Supscription? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/9 "2004-03-20T22:11:31Z")
It’s also possible, if you ever had your e-mail address publicly visible here (I note that you don’t, currently), that a spambot could potentially have harvested your e-mail address from these pages. vBulletin has a number of features to make this more difficult, but if the address is publicly visible, then it’s always still possible. If you did not ever have your address publicly visible, then it has to be a coincidence. In the entire history of the SDMB, the administrators have only twice sent a bulk e-mail to all members (in both cases, it was because the board had been cracked into, and members were warned that their old passwords might no longer be secure). As for whoever or whatever did sign you up for all that spam, one thing you can count on is that they’re never going to remove you from their lists, no matter what you do. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/10 "2004-03-20T22:34:29Z")
> [@Tenar](#): > > If that is happening, it can only be a coincidence. I haven’t gotten a single piece of spam (or other email, for that matter) as a result of my membership. Me neither, not a single spam message has _ever_ gone to that account. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/11 "2004-03-20T23:10:51Z")
Me neither. I’m sure SwingWing will be back soon to suggest he may have made a mistake - it could happen to anybody. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/12 "2004-03-21T18:21:56Z")
I hope you’re not still waiting **Papermache Prince** , because it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-dont-subscribe-to-sdmb-will-my-email-address-be-removed-from-sdmb-mailing-li/235263/13 "2004-03-21T22:46:26Z")
We do not give or sell or share your member information with any other entity. We have not done so and we will not do so in future. If you have left your email address visible in your user profile, then it will continue to remain visible after the switch. Or not, as the case may be. We will not remove email addresses manually. your humble TubaDiva Administrator