On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:23:04AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> You may already know, I use disposable email addresses.  So when some retail
> store asks me for my email at checkout, I just say their name
> @nedharvey.com, and later if I start receiving junk mail, I just look to see
> which address it was sent to, and I know who leaked my email address, and I
> filter that email address to the trash.
> 
>  
> 
> Two weeks ago, I signed up for box.net (also now box.com) using
> [email protected].  I haven't given that email address out to anybody
> else, and I started receiving enlargement email on that address today.
> 
>  
> 
> So...
> 
>  
> 
> The only other "reputable" company who has done this before was citizens
> bank, just so you know.

Have you contacted box.net about it?  I started getting spam to an address
that I had only given to carbonite.com a while back.  I hit up their support
email and got a response back a few weeks later that the company that they
outsourced thier email lists to had misused it.  They apologized and said they
had dropped that provider as one of their vendors.

-- 
Matt Okeson-Harlow
http://technomage.net

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