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Dating Industry
My email box was shouting at me this morning. “Men Needed!” it said. Sounds like spam, doesn't it? Of course, it is, but this message was not trying to sell me viagra or some other drug; instead it's trying to recruit me to a dating event—my “chance to experience a dozen first dates in one evening, and to have a friend along to help!”
I really don't know what to make of that, except that, well, I'm glad I have no reason to go. Now I just want to know: How did these jokers get my law school email address? Is it possible GW sells its students' email addresses to marketers?
Posted June 23, 2005 05:35 AM | life generally
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If your email address is standardized, it could very well be a series of random attempts at your school's domain using the standardized form. That is to say, if your school always uses, say, lastname@school.edu, it wouldn't be too hard to write a script that matches a bunch of random lastnames to the domain.
Posted by: transmogriflaw at June 23, 2005 08:38 PM
Darn! You're probably right. I was hoping I'd have another reason to complain about GW. ;-)
Posted by: ambimb at June 24, 2005 06:27 AM
