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TV Guide Sells E-Mail Addresses to Spammers

Published 1/22/04

Filed under: Miscellaneous

Because I own my own domain names, when I need to give an address to a Web site — say, TV Guide’s — I often give out an address I can trace back. For example, when I signed up at tvguide.com I used tvguide@[one of my domains].

So now I’m getting spam to that address. There’s only one way for that to happen, as I have never used “tvguide@” anywhere else: TV Guide sold my address. TV Guide sold my address to someone who is either a spammer or who was willing to give it to spammers.

And that’s exactly why I use addresses like that. Now I know not to give my business to TV Guide.

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