# You're using my old e-mail address. (spam) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 27, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014 "2002-04-27T21:46:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/21 "2002-04-27T23:37:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by doreen \* > \*\*According to the original e-mail I got, someone got my e-mail address from a “music-oriented” web site and put me on a mailing list. It looks like auto-responses from other “subscribers” were sent to eveyone on the list, most of whom probably didn’t know they were on the list. I tried to unsubscribe, and it seemed to be working, but when I sent the confirmation e-mail, the address failed \*\* Big Ditto. I’ve bocked all of the accounts, even the folks who simply replied to the original (20) message(s). Haven’t seen any more mail in the last few hours. I wonder how we all got caught up in this. It seems there are a lot of Dopers on the list. ---
**Author:** ![ScottHaneda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@ScottHaneda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottHaneda)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/22 "2002-04-27T23:41:51Z")
and not a single person here has reported any of these emails to [spamcop.net](http://spamcop.net) ??? Thats a good way to get it to stop in short time usually ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/23 "2002-04-27T23:44:01Z")
Yeah, I had about 20 of 'em too. And there I was complaining the other day about how I NEVER seem to get junk/spam mail! That’ll teach me to open 'me mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/24 "2002-04-27T23:56:10Z")
I haven’t seen even one of them. Man, life is good. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/25 "2002-04-28T00:06:33Z")
I got about 20 as well I replied to one telling them to fuck off. havent had any more. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/26 "2002-04-28T00:06:57Z")
I got 31 all at once (well i got to my computer and 31 were there. I deleted them and no more came I don’t think I registered for the temp board so if someone (mod/admin) can look that up they might get a clue of where this came from. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/27 "2002-04-28T00:08:20Z")
Wait a minuite - the email address they used I no longer have registered w/ the SDMB and the one I do have was not sent anything ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/28 "2002-04-28T00:17:20Z")
I just looked in my e-mail for the first time since Friday night. I had fifty-six (count 'em, 56) messages from this guy together with a few pretty offensive responses. They all came in about 5:30 on Saturday night. I’m glad I looked here since I thought I had actually sent the guy something. Thy told me that I couldn’t live without e-mail. They were wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/29 "2002-04-28T00:20:19Z")
It is nice to know that Heather is on maternity leave, though. ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/30 "2002-04-28T00:59:01Z")
I got 30 of them. I unsubscribed and they stopped. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/31 "2002-04-28T01:05:47Z")
Check out the ATMB thread guys \_ I got a response from the guy who publishes the newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/32 "2002-04-28T01:09:33Z")
I just started a post about it too. Some of the responses were pretty mean. ---
**Author:** ![bbeaty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@bbeaty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbeaty)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/33 "2002-04-28T01:19:58Z")
No question in my mind that the guy’s a spammer. Ask yourself: how did he get your email address??? It’s very common for clueless web-merchants to buy CDROMS full of addresses, then to “subscribe” them all to their new web store so everyone on the directed email list can receive periodic important announcements about shaving cream and farm implements. He’s doing you a favor, you see. Saving you the time it would take you to subscribe yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Poloin99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Poloin99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poloin99)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/34 "2002-04-28T02:26:04Z")
I to got about 25. I am on AOL. I sent some samples to them so they can touble shoot it. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/35 "2002-04-28T02:26:31Z")
You know I thought some of the names of the people replying to the messages looked familiar. I wonder if that David Lynch guy is THE David Lynch of Twin Peaks fame well doesn’t matter as I won’t be mailing him ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/36 "2002-04-28T02:44:21Z")
Add me to the list of victims of this. I know an e-mail virus when I see it, though, and deleted everything immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/37 "2002-04-28T02:51:01Z")
I got those. It’s an autoreply feedback loop. Somebody signed a bunch of us up for a newsletter we didn’t want, via listserv. Some of the people whose addresses were added to the list are out of town or have changed their address, and have set up their email server to autoreply to email that comes in. The mailing from the listserv arrives, generates a reply, which gets sent to the listserv, which sends the message to everyone on the list, which generates another autoreply. It’s an ugly thing. What made it worse was the people who didn’t get it and sent replies to the person who had the autoreply, thus multiplying the problem even further. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/38 "2002-04-28T02:52:36Z")
Oh, and FTR, I sent an email to the unsubscribe address and was able to successgully unsubscribe and have received no further email from this list or any of the people on it. ---
**Author:** ![ejrn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@ejrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ejrn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/39 "2002-04-28T03:02:41Z")
I got a bunch of these annoying emails too - about 15-20. Also got some pissed off responses from other victims. I replied telling them to stop and that was the end of it so far. ---
**Author:** ![Neenah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/958977/32.png) [@Neenah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neenah)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014/40 "2002-04-28T04:27:31Z")
I’ve gotten about 70 of these today. I have a radio phone, and my best connection speed all week is 9,600 bps. I really enjoy waiting for an hour worth of crap mail to download. I’m thinking of making this my new hobby. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-using-my-old-e-mail-address-spam/106014.md?page=3)