>Saturday, June 4, 2005, 1:39:42 PM, Paul wrote:
>
>>>Sounds like you are giving them the "benefit of the doubt"... which is fine.
>>>
>LMU> I did give each one a unique email account, so I can
>LMU> say with fair certainty, that none has ever sent anything to my "regular"
>LMU> personal accounts (like this one), which are spammed relentlessly, and
>none
>LMU> of these three seems to have ever given the email address to any third
>party
>LMU> (unlike some other "large" companies); For those able to, using a unique
>LMU> email address for every corporation you deal with, makes tracking the
>transfer
>LMU> or sale of your address very clear when it happens.
>
>Agreed completely. I also use a unique email address for each and
>every service I give an email address to. (This is one reason I
>accept all emails @menschel.net -- I use a new address for some valid
>reason just about every day, and don't want to have to manually add
>them all to an "accept" list.)
>
>Staples has never sent an email to any unsubscribed email address of
>mine, and nobody else has ever sent an email to the address I gave to
>Staples.
>
>
>
>Bob Menschel
>
Also, agreed; Staples is IMNSHO completely a "good" guy. The
ones from chetah (with the one TESSCO exception) have all been sent spam;
And the Cingular account got *lots* of it (which Cingular denies ever
authorizing). It is *very* unlikely that the account name was "guessed",
so either it was "stolen" (i.e. bad management from Cingular or Chetah)
or misused on purpose; Because it stopped when my telephone call complaints
reached a high enough level, I assume that cheath was responsible and got
a telephone call from Cingular (probably with no uncertain terms that a
lawsuit had been threatened; I had had a lawyer call also - the good ol'
California's privacy clause in the state constitution - which unfortunately
has more flaws than "good" clauses).
Also, just a habit, but I usually send anyone who legally acquires
my Social Security number a registered, return receipt letter stating in
no uncertain terms that if I ever find that they divulge it, I will sue - I
have collected in the low 6 figures (on the left of the decimal) from four
companies over the years (all in settlements, of course with no admission
of wrongdoing). In three of the cases, the companies just "verified" my SS
to insurance companies (who all admitted the source of their information in
writing when asked - after all, they broke no agreements by asking a third
party). It may be a hassle, but you can get insurance, credit cards, cell
phones, etc. all without ever giving away your Social Security number - no
matter what the low level peons tell you is "company policy".
Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. I also accept all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a few exceptions. The
many accounts are then mostly coalesced into 17 mailboxes by usage and/or
industry. The few exceptions are all cases of "sold" mailing lists which
contain either misspellings or variants with one or more missing characters
of actual accounts and I got tired of the spam they collected; All other
nonexistant accounts are used just for spam collection (bad mistake for the
poor fool who emails sales@, webmaster@ or other "common" accounts most of
my domains).
