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Originally Posted by patrickp
Yes, it is possible that an employee of ntl has sold a list of email addresses, but I would consider it much less likely than that the people who've been getting spam are the victims of a spammer creating lists, or simply haven't been careful enough with their addresses - as I said before, just using an email address, even carefully, is probably enough to compromise it. The reason why none of my ntl emails have ever received spam is simply that I've never used any of them.
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I think we'll just have to agree to differ on this one Patrick. Perhaps the spammers only got a partial list of email addresses, which didn't contain yours - who knows? I can only say that (a) I've seen it all before, (b) I am very careful not to divulge my email address on Usenet and the like. I think we should leave others to draw their own conclusions.