Oh Ticketek..

[theducks]

So Ticketek periodically send out emails telling you about upcoming events. The one I got today was notifying me of a Dandy Warhols session coming out.

Except, you know, they put everyone's email address in the message body. All 20,000 of them. Including people like, say a federal court judge, and the 60 something helpdesk co-ordinator at ITS, and one of our academics.

In other news, what would a validated list of 20,000 Australian emails go for? I'm sure someone has already sold this one. I'll let you know if I get any email to my ticketek spamtrap address it went to ;)

Oh dear.

Also, if you're interested as to distribution of the 20,000 addresses by domain:

120 aapt.net.au
120 ozemail.com.au
120 westnet.com.au
126 msn.com
157 tpg.com.au
172 iinet.net.au
173 bigpond.com.au
546 yahoo.com
741 bigpond.net.au
812 bigpond.com
955 optusnet.com.au
972 yahoo.com.au
1029 gmail.com
8812 hotmail.com

Comments

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

Shit.

I reckon someone will lose their job over that. They'll call it a compliance issue.

[david adam <zanchey> (from livejournal.com)]

You could at least post the details of the Dandy Warhols gig, although apparently they're pretty disappointing live due to being stoned out of their minds.

[luyer.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's anyone whose presence on the CC list would make this list of email addresses a matter of 'public record'?

BTW, I had a reminder of a CCIE event I hadn't confirmed for once, from Cisco, with all the Australian and New Zealander CCIEs enumerated as recipients. I'm sure that list would have gone for a bit; can't tell how many messages I got as a result as it wasn't a spamtrap address. However there were some direct follow-up solicitations to the entire list.