Why the hell is DigitalPoint selling their webmaster email database?

Well all of use your E-mail option on DP so Spammer easily send a mail by DP. If you have really big problems than you should disable your email option here.

I am sure most of us here not using it because we have IM ids.

 

Well, I received that email too, but I have never enabled my e-mail option on DP.

The email address used to contact with me was a junk-address that I use sometimes when submitting to directories, so probably the emails are from a directory owner, and there are so many here at DP

 

It's enabled by default, and if you'd like I can email you...as you've never turned it off.

Though, by default, any email sent from here, should actually have something about Digital Point in the subject, or at least message body, as it's a form system, and the actual email address of the people you send a message to is never known (Unless you replied).

 

Hey my email id is . This way i will divert all spam to some unknown mailbox

 

Man that seems like a lot of work to go into individual users and email one at a time - even when the email is enabled you can't harvest the address so it would have to be done that way. - yes, I got it too.

Lisa

Edit: Sorry folks, that isn't it! If you send an email through the dp system the sender comes as yourname@digitalpointforums and the top of the message shows like this

So people getting this message ... your email address is "out there"!

 

Thanks for the info. I've turned off now.

 

That's what I was thinking/trying to say

 

I was also trying to say part of it, how it would take ages to send individual emails to hundreds of people. Also what I didn't know was that at the top it says the email was sent from DP so obviously our emails have been set free!

 

Thanks buddy and you are right. Well all of use should check this massage:

 

It's important to note that if you reply to such an email you ARE giving your address out, as you'll be replying from your inbox rather then from the form here on DP.

At least I think that's how it works

 

I got it too.
What a bunch of losers! Go get a life i'd say!!

 

Thats right , tell them tiger who is the boss around here.

 

Sorry to jump on this late but just to give a bit more context to these guys check out their McAffee Site Advisor Entry:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/thagodz.com/
"In our tests, we found downloads on this site that some people consider adware, spyware, or other unwanted programs.
ActiveX: ysb_regular.cab (ysb_regular.cab) installed the following programs on our PC: Adware-ISTbar"

So this is either a monumentally stupid spamming operation, or more likely, a spyware spreading operation. I haven't checked if the site is still sending down ISTBar since I'm at work and I don't have hard core protection here like I do at home.

 

Speaking of which is this thagodz resource of any use? Or is it a scam? Anyone heard about them or tried them?

 

This is an email i recieved a few minutes ago

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AOL/AIM: OneBedroomApartm

 

No. He isnt. Neither his forum...lol

 

The forum isn't hacked. Its just someone who has mailed you using 'send an email address' option in your user profile.

 

No. It isnt. When someone sends email by send mail feature, it looks like this:

 

I received this too.

 

You can send an email from any email address you want. Just a bit of programming, that's all.

Look at header of the email it will tell you more about the origin.