On 07/02/2021 17:06, Bev Nicolson wrote:
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Or, of course (what many people fear) endless junk mail.
But they have (I just checked) 3000 members, give or take presumably. They're not a charity but they will have obligations to those members and not sending junk mail is, I'm guessing, likely to one of them.
Indeed, not sending junk mail should be a responsibility for an organisation, but....
I use personalised emails for companies and groups. E.g. communicating with BigCompany, I would put my email address as steve-BigCompany@somewhere.invalid. Communicating with Bevs Fan Club I would use say steve-bevfanclub@somewhere.invalid.
In both situations I have ended up receiving spam. Occasionally a reputable company will send spam and you can usually opt out.
A non-reputable company won't care about your details.
I've had reputable companies leak my email address to spam lists, either via data breaches and hacking attempts, or possibly by someone in the company getting a computer virus that harvests email addresses.
I've had spam from fan-clubs sent by members of the fan club. This has happened because a member has had a virus which has spammed everyone in their address book.
I've had my email address harvested from a member of a fan club whose infected computer has put my email address on a list of email addresses to spam.
All of the above have happened to me.
This is a reason why some people don't like sharing email addresses.
Because of my system, I can simply dump an email address that gets spammed into the junk, and obviously I have spam filters, but not everyone is so tech-savvy.
Steve