<div dir="ltr">Is it possible that you picked up a bit of spyware or malware on your one of your own machines? They love to crack open email clients and harvest addresses...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:02 AM, David Millians <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:millia@panix.com" target="_blank">millia@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 9/4/2014 2:21 AM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
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In the two plus years that I used that particular address with them I've<br>
never received an email from anyone outside of AT&T that was any form of<br>
marketing pitch. The only emails that particular address has ever seen<br>
were billing messages (statement ready for viewing, bill reminders,<br>
etc.) direct from AT&T. Nor have I ever seen an attempt in the logs to<br>
try and send to that address. So it's really a case of them leaking it<br>
out. I'll won't know for sure if they simply violated their TOS because<br>
they felt like it or if someone broke in. I can only wait and see what<br>
happens with the new address.<br>
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Personally, I would say that after, say, a month of no results has happened, I'd call their executive level ombudsman. TOS means lawyers; lawyers means lawsuits, and class action lawsuits are pesky. And violating TOS means you can break contracts, too. That'd be a lovely loophole for people to use. All of the above means somebody up top needs to know about it. Neither option is good.<br>
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Barring that, I'd take it to consumerist. The rock and a hard place aspect of this would be great fun for them, I'm sure.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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