email adress provided from photo.net to other websites?

[yann_r.]

Hi Brian,<p>

I received this email today from markyourpictures.com (I never used or visited

this website).<br>

Not a big problem, just wanted to let you know about.<p align="justify">

 

<i>This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your markyourpictures.com

mailing list memberships. It includes your subscription info and how to use it

to change it or unsubscribe from a list.<p align="justify">

 

You can visit the URLs to change your membership status or configuration,

including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery

altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.<p align="justify">

 

In addition to the URL interfaces, you can also use email to make such changes.

For more info, send a message to the '-request' address of the list (for

example, mailman-request@markyourpictures.com) containing just the word 'help'

in the message body, and an email message will be sent to you with

instructions.<p align="justify">

 

If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to

mailman-owner@markyourpictures.com. Thanks!<p align="justify">

 

Passwords for xxxxxxxxxx@photo.net:<p align="justify">

 

List<br>

----<br>

Marketing@markyourpictures.com

http://mail.markyourpictures.com/mailman/options/marketing_markyourpictures.com/xxxxxxxxxphoto.net<br>

Password // URL<br>

--------<br>

xxxxxxxxxx</p></i>

I have replaced some letters by "x"s.<br>

Yann.

[mottershead]

We never furnish email addresses to other people. photo.net members can find out the email addresses of other members, and it is possible that someone has looked up your address. It would be very tedious for someone to harvest email addresses of very many people, and it would have to be done over a very long period of time with a lot of different bogus accounts, because we have systems to prevent very many addresses being handed out very fast.

[stephen hazelton]

Yann, I have an email account that I used to sign up for here. I just checked, and since June 24, I have gotten 17 junk emails, and not one of them are photo-related. On my work account, I have gotten as many 30-50 junk emails a day at times. So like Brian says, there is a not a general problem with people harvesting mass emails off there- or if so, they've missed me. If perhaps you have posted your email address in a post, it might have been picked up that way.

[emre]

They might simply have guessed your email address.

[yann_r.]

I asked for cause it's the first time I recieve a *looking-serious* email with a connection with photography. Moreover, I know that exists for magazines subcriptions: in a same group, adresses files can be shared and given to some different magazines of the one you've subcribed to.<br>

Of course, I've already received many junk emails and I think I'll receive many others.<p>

Thanks for your responses.

[mottershead]

As I said, we don't share email addresses with anyone. It's in our privacy policy. So, if your @photo.net email address leaked to a magazine, they must have gotten it without our permission.