[ale] OT(ish) Sold or stolen?

[Alex Carver]

On 2014-09-04 08:02, David Millians wrote:
> 
> On 9/4/2014 2:21 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> In the two plus years that I used that particular address with them I've
>> never received an email from anyone outside of AT&T that was any form of
>> marketing pitch.  The only emails that particular address has ever seen
>> were billing messages (statement ready for viewing, bill reminders,
>> etc.) direct from AT&T.  Nor have I ever seen an attempt in the logs to
>> try and send to that address.  So it's really a case of them leaking it
>> out.  I'll won't know for sure if they simply violated their TOS because
>> they felt like it or if someone broke in.  I can only wait and see what
>> happens with the new address.
> 
> 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.


I think that's a good idea.  They did promise to give me a call a couple
hours after I reported this to them and I've not received a call in two
days.