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   Earthlink is just as bad

   

   Griffon, Jun 23rd, 2004 @ 8:23pm

   
   

   A couple years back I had earthlink DSL setup. about a month or so after I ordered service I got around to setting up their mail account. The thing was just chocked full of spam, 1300 pieces. I called them and patiently explained that this was a virgin account and they might have somebody on the inside leaking addresses (the address was unusual enough to be missed by a good portion of the carpet bombing spam runs). They told me I needed to turn on their spam filters and refused to understand that there might be a more serous issue.. LOL. Later somebody told me that the biz sales guys would cut all kinds of deals and sell their address list to absolutely anyone and everyone to generate reveune... I have no idea if that is true or not but given their refusal to escalate or research why a virgin account would be attracting that kind of action I, tend to believe it.
   
   -Griffon

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   you've got jail

   

   eponymous geek, Jun 24th, 2004 @ 8:08am

   
   

   I have a cable modem with the local provider here and I had a dozen spams before I finished setting up my mail account. A hint: don't use your webmail address books; my parents never got spam until I put them in my address book.

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   Re: you've got spam & lots of it @ Aohell

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 24th, 2004 @ 9:27am

   
   

   Aohell doesn't pay their employees a living wage so its no surpirse an unethical employee sold the list. ( I'm not saying it was right )
   
   Aohell is notorious THEMSELVES for selling or "renting" their subscribers information to 3rd parties.
   
   Aohell blathers on about how they protect your privacy and its an outright lie.

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   aservanto, Nov 28th, 2006 @ 10:06pm

   
   

   For a long time..now... I have tested (now and then) by a code name the integrity of various major companys "privacy policy"...
   THERE IS NO INGEGRITY... OUT THERE...
   various (probably about 70% or more) companys have "moles" in their staff that sell our email addys.. to 3rd-5th parties...!
   
   wake up net surfers!!!

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   hello

   

   mwiine, Feb 23rd, 2011 @ 6:27am

   
   

   i would also want to sell my email list so where can i get buyers

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   hello

   

   mwiine, Feb 23rd, 2011 @ 6:27am

   
   

   i would also want to sell my email list so where can i get buyers

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