On June 26th 2007 I received a mass email from the "Business Development" department of HackerSafe about a new affiliate program. The thing to note was, it was sent out with every email address in the TO field plain to see. Why am I bringing this up? Well I just received my first spam email from one of the email addresses in the TO field, that has never emailed me before. The only connection I have to them is this piece of email sent to both of us.
This can be a great lesson learned. Don't ever send out emails to groups of people with outlook or any email client that isn't designed to mass email. I don't care if you want to use the BCC field and get away with it, at some point in time you will click the wrong button and it will reveal all the email addresses to everyone on the list. It's playing with fire!
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Who does mass, off site, e-mails using Outlook or something similar? I would think if they did that it would be sent to a mailing list that would send it per-e-mail basis. A lot of the last two blog posts you’ve posted comes down to one thing: lazy people. You always need to overlook your stuff. I make mistakes with E-Blah, everyone makes mistakes with something — but we should do the best we can to NOT make those mistakes and make sure those mistakes are done to the least amount of people.
How stupid can people be? You should think “pro’s” like these knew better. Or maybe it was a honest mistake?
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