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AOL assisting the spammers?
I read an article a couple of weeks ago and it really got me thinking. We all have to put up with receiving spa^m mail and it is an irritation to all of us. People are very quick to accuse newsletter publishers of sharing their email addresses if they suddenly start receiving junk mail – from time to time I have received emails from people saying that they subscribed to my newsletter and ‘suddenly’ started getting spa^m. Just to put the record straight, let me say here and now, I have NEVER sold, lent or passed on in anyway whatsoever, any of the email addresses of my subscribers or customers (and I never will).
There are lots of different ways that spa^mmers get hold of your email address and quite frankly, if you are online using email, it is going to happen to you at some point and it won’t necessarily be anyone else’s fault. But, this article really concerned me – if you were looking for someone to blame for the spa^m you were receiving, the last company you would think of would be AOL right? After all, they use anti-spa^m filters to filter their customers email before it even gets to their Inbox and they make it very easy for AOL users to report spa^m, so surely they wouldn’t do anything to assist the spread of such a thing?
Well, take a look at the article below and make your own decision. The key sentence is about halfway down the article when it says that the self-confessed spa^mmer claimed that AOL willingly sold him their entire customer database and when given the opportunity to deny this, the Vice Chairman of AOL did not.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2210551
Now, the fact that he did not deny the claim does not necessarily mean that it is true and I am not for one moment suggesting that it is – innocent until proven guilty and all that – but it certainly made me think. As I say, make your own decision but bear it in mind when considering where all of your junk mail is coming from because personally, I think that the ‘little guys’ such as myself are the ones that are playing by the rules and as is often the case, it is the ‘big boys’ that are doing exactly what they like…
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