Kidding ;-) I use a generic email for newletter signups so if I get spam too it’s no big deal.

Years ago I started keeping a separate email from my personal email for “lists”, and now I run all emails on my domain through Google Apps anyway (essentially checking them with the same interface you use with Gmail). Google/Gmail has amazing spam control.

Thanks everybody for your attitude & patience.

@Thomas:
“No worries, mate. I’m always spammed to death anyway… a few hundred more isn’t going to make any difference.”
:)

@anonymous: yeh, I’ll check it. I haven’t heard similar from YMLP, but naturally good to check before making a switch. At least if I find something interesting, I’ll make a blog post.

@DtD: I don’t recall saying anything like that. :)

@Iain: well, that was pretty much the thing I knew, so I might as well others know. Besides, who knows if there’s other Aweber users who haven’t heard about this.

I don’t believe that they would have sold the email address data, but it hasn’t occurred to me to ask from them if they have had a similar incident. Also I haven’t got spam to my test addresses in the same list, so I’m not confident that all of the addresses would have been compromised either, so this might be just an isolated incident from some other surprising chain of events.

Before you switch, if you do extra research to check which companies have had these kind of problems etc., would be nice if you post your findings.

~DtD

It’s annoying when you get let down by supposedly reputable companies but it shows great customer service from you for openly letting us all know!

Iain