try "have quit". i quit years ago, not because of the stress caused by users/customers, but because of ineffective management and, specifically, a ceo (not a manager, but the ceo) telling you (a) in front of anyone in the immediate area, (b) in public, and (c) in meetings that you (literally) were a fuck up and didn't know what you were doing. it was a 100 employee company; she did that to most of the senior employees. most tolerated it (among them her management team). some of us didn't.
i too, run my own mail server. i also run my own dns server. the email addresses i generate for each vendor i deal with also live in their own unique mail subdomain, meaning the subdomain has its own mx record. so, for vendor X, i will give them an email address of x@x.example.com and will create an MX record for x.example.com. i never share that address with anyone except the vendor, and i rarely will ever send an email from one of those addresses. over the years this scheme has served me well in stopping spam.
since there are no other email addresses in that vendor's mail domain, if i do start getting spam i can just delete the mx record and the mail domain. and if i do start getting spam i know that the vendor has shared my info, or their systems have been compromised.
i used this scheme for several years and never received a single spam email. that was... until 2007, when td ameritrade's systems were compromised, and most recently just a few days ago when i received spam to the account i had created for dropbox. (there have been several other cases in between.) i sent two emails to dropbox and contacted them via two separate web forms but have heard exactly zerozilchnada from them.
the major problem for me when this happens is that it's a time sink to really do anything about it. it's very easy for me to delete the subdomain and mail address and then create a new one. but getting the vendor to even acknowledge an issue (let alone getting assurance that something is being done about it) is time consuming and frustrating.
they do have some legal obligations when their systems are compromised; public shaming them into action seems to me to be the easiest for the consumer.
"To do this while supposedly being concerned about privacy is beyond me"
can someone point me to the article where the GSM Association was outraged when it learned of the illegal wiretapping program which the carriers happily participated in as agents of the u.s. government? i'm sure they protested that, right? riiight?
"what hksid99 said"... i'm in the same boat... i've been a long time customer and never had a problem until after the merger.
i have my own domain and host my own mail and dns servers, so when i sign up for something from a vendor i (a) create a unique mx record for some.my.domain mail domain, and then i (b) create a random email address at that random mail domain (e.g.,.my.domain. (actually, scripts do all the creating.) i only ever give that address to the one vendor, and i almost never use a public computer (certainly not in the case of td ameritrade). the vendor-specific email addresses i dole out are terribly difficult to guess, so disclosure by the vendor is about the only way they would get distributed.
after i started getting spam to the address which i only ever gave to ameritrade, i called ameritrade on the 19th of this month, to ask where was their privacy policy governing email addresses (and other personal information). i spoke with a guy named kumba. i explained what happened and what i wanted. he told me they never shared email addresses and then he put me on hold. he came back about ten minutes later and pointed me to a document that had nothing to do with email addresses or privacy. he seemed a bit anxious to get rid of me. he put me on hold again. i was on hold again for over 30 minutes before i got tired of waiting for him to return. so i hung up.
i created a new address and made the change on the ameritrade website. then i deleted the old mx record and mail domain, which stops the spam where it should be stopped, at the source. that's been 11 days and i've received no new spam, but only time will tell.
i'm sure ameritrade has 3rd party marketing agreements in place with other companies, and that allows them to share email addresses, etc. i guess what yanks my chain is that i'm getting penny-stock spam that effectively originated from ameritrade.
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try "have quit". i quit years ago, not because of the stress caused by users/customers, but because of ineffective management and, specifically, a ceo (not a manager, but the ceo) telling you (a) in front of anyone in the immediate area, (b) in public, and (c) in meetings that you (literally) were a fuck up and didn't know what you were doing. it was a 100 employee company; she did that to most of the senior employees. most tolerated it (among them her management team). some of us didn't.
i too, run my own mail server. i also run my own dns server. the email addresses i generate for each vendor i deal with also live in their own unique mail subdomain, meaning the subdomain has its own mx record. so, for vendor X, i will give them an email address of x@x.example.com and will create an MX record for x.example.com. i never share that address with anyone except the vendor, and i rarely will ever send an email from one of those addresses. over the years this scheme has served me well in stopping spam.
since there are no other email addresses in that vendor's mail domain, if i do start getting spam i can just delete the mx record and the mail domain. and if i do start getting spam i know that the vendor has shared my info, or their systems have been compromised.
i used this scheme for several years and never received a single spam email. that was ... until 2007, when td ameritrade's systems were compromised, and most recently just a few days ago when i received spam to the account i had created for dropbox. (there have been several other cases in between.) i sent two emails to dropbox and contacted them via two separate web forms but have heard exactly zerozilchnada from them.
the major problem for me when this happens is that it's a time sink to really do anything about it. it's very easy for me to delete the subdomain and mail address and then create a new one. but getting the vendor to even acknowledge an issue (let alone getting assurance that something is being done about it) is time consuming and frustrating.
they do have some legal obligations when their systems are compromised; public shaming them into action seems to me to be the easiest for the consumer.
(for one of the instances where this happened to me, you can visit my rant blog at http://caringcostsextra.org/2011/01/20/ewiz-com-superbiiz-com-user-data-hacked-and-compromised/)
"To do this while supposedly being concerned about privacy is beyond me"
can someone point me to the article where the GSM Association was outraged when it learned of the illegal wiretapping program which the carriers happily participated in as agents of the u.s. government? i'm sure they protested that, right? riiight?
do i need a vt100 or a vt102 to see this gigathing?
... at&t apologist.
caring costs extra(sm)
the first part of the second-to-the-last sentence sums it all up: "Congress has approved funding for anti-missile research partly out of *fear* ..."
it ain't the blind they're worried about, it's when the sighted close their eyes that upsets them so.
Danny Carlton, aka "jacklewis.net" ... google away.
i just keep the cup-holder closed, and keep the screws on the back of the case tightened ... seems secure enough to me ...
"what hksid99 said" ... i'm in the same boat ... i've been a long time customer and never had a problem until after the merger.
.my.domain mail domain, and then i (b) create a random email address at that random mail domain (e.g., .my.domain. (actually, scripts do all the creating.) i only ever give that address to the one vendor, and i almost never use a public computer (certainly not in the case of td ameritrade). the vendor-specific email addresses i dole out are terribly difficult to guess, so disclosure by the vendor is about the only way they would get distributed.
i have my own domain and host my own mail and dns servers, so when i sign up for something from a vendor i (a) create a unique mx record for some
after i started getting spam to the address which i only ever gave to ameritrade, i called ameritrade on the 19th of this month, to ask where was their privacy policy governing email addresses (and other personal information). i spoke with a guy named kumba. i explained what happened and what i wanted. he told me they never shared email addresses and then he put me on hold. he came back about ten minutes later and pointed me to a document that had nothing to do with email addresses or privacy. he seemed a bit anxious to get rid of me. he put me on hold again. i was on hold again for over 30 minutes before i got tired of waiting for him to return. so i hung up.
i created a new address and made the change on the ameritrade website. then i deleted the old mx record and mail domain, which stops the spam where it should be stopped, at the source. that's been 11 days and i've received no new spam, but only time will tell.
i'm sure ameritrade has 3rd party marketing agreements in place with other companies, and that allows them to share email addresses, etc. i guess what yanks my chain is that i'm getting penny-stock spam that effectively originated from ameritrade.