{"id":1206,"date":"2004-06-02T00:18:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T00:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/06\/02\/did_united_sell_their_mailing_list.html"},"modified":"2004-06-02T00:18:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T00:18:44","slug":"did_united_sell_their_mailing_list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/06\/02\/did_united_sell_their_mailing_list.html","title":{"rendered":"did United sell their mailing list?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty used to spam, but i also track it pretty vigilantly.  I have a unique email address given to each company on the web and most of them i never send anything from.  Some have ended up on spam lists for different reasons.  Cheap Tickets sold my address within a month.  Some get distributed because of invitation policies.  I stoppped reading email to my LinkedIn address because someone with a virus problem managed to send that into spamming hell.<\/p>\n<p>But today, a new entry into my spamming world emerged.  United.<\/p>\n<p>Email addresses that are used by companies that will then send my address to others (i.e. YASNS) are human readable.  They have the company name in them so that the recipient will get a clue and realize that this is a site-specific address.  Not all do.  But the ones given to companies like United (receipt-only) have coded numbers in them to track them over time and place.  My coded United email started getting spam today.  As a Unix email reader, i have never experienced a virus.  I can&#8217;t conceptualize any other way in which that email address was acquired by anyone.  Fascinating.  Absolutely fascinating.  I guess they really are going bankrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty used to spam, but i also track it pretty vigilantly. I have a unique email address given to each company on the web and most of them i never send anything from. Some have ended up on spam lists for different reasons. Cheap Tickets sold my address within a month. Some get distributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}