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There are a bunch like AliExpress, eBay, Paypal and kickstarter where 3rd parties get your email address too (or used to), so you don't know which one leaked th
by Tepix 5y ago
There are a bunch like AliExpress, eBay, Paypal and kickstarter where 3rd parties get your email address too (or used to), so you don't know which one leaked them. I tend to change the email address every few years when it gets too much and block the old ones after a while.
I suspect that most of the entries on the list got hacked. There are a few exceptions where companies do not honor unsubscribe requests and keep sending you emails or flat out sell your email address.
Here's a list that was collected over many years:
- Cory Doctorow's mailing list (twice)
- bitcard
- Achatzi, CSV direct, easynotebooks, foto-erhard, hivilux - (german online shops)
- dcemu, gbadev
- Dropbox
- funcom
- gawker
- Kimsufi and OVH
- GoodLuckBuy
- Mails listed in WHOIS
- Mails used in Yahoo groups (RIP)
- MiniInTheBox
- monster.com
- moneybookers
- pianostreet
- Usenet (duh)
- Typepad
- UnternHammer
- cdoctorow 5y agoI find that bizarre. It's just a mailman instance. Did the bot send you a confirmation email? Did you try emailing me instead? A few times over the 15-ish years that I ran the list, Mailman has failed to honor unsub requests, and in each case, it turned out to be because the user signed up with a different send-to than their return-to - for example, if you signed up as doctorow-list+youremail@gmail.com, and then send an unsub from youremail@gmail.com, Mailman (correctly) rejects the unsub request, because it doesn't have a subscriber called youremail@gmail.com. In those (rare) cases, I take care of it manually. If you're still subscribed and not able to unsub, please just email me, doctorow@craphound.com, and I'll unsubscribe you by hand.
- Tepix 5y agoYeah i did email you, it was a long time ago (10 years?). I got a typical spam email to my "x-craphound" alias. I guess you got hacked twice back then.