Timeline for Cydeck bulk-spamming serverfault users?
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| Jul 22, 2010 at 18:07 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 6, 2010 at 15:26 | comment | added | Daniel Schaffer | I just got on as well for StackOverflow | |
| May 4, 2010 at 22:11 | comment | added | SLaks |
I got one with the first two (but not third) occurrence of Serverfault replaced by Stackoverflow.
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| May 3, 2010 at 17:38 | comment | added | esm | For the record, I only have one email address listed; the other two are instant messaging usernames, and I'd expect a representative of a technical community (Cydeck) to appreciate the difference. The form-letter nature was off-putting and set off my targeted-spam alarm, but I can accept that I might be in the minority on that opinion. @Bill, same email address in both places, neither of them gmail (although I use google as an alt. openid provider). | |
| May 3, 2010 at 17:36 | comment | added | Kyle Cronin | I got one too. My email address is in my profile, though, so there's no mystery where they got it. Strange that my Server Fault profile is interesting, as I only have 550 rep and a handful of questions and answers. | |
| May 3, 2010 at 17:34 | answer | added | Jeff Atwood | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 3, 2010 at 17:18 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | Well, you do have three e-mail addresses on your website's contact page, including a Gmail address. Essentially, someone had to look up your e-mail address manually. If anything, that reduces the smell factor, IMO. BTW, I have been contacted this way twice, and both times it was legit. | |
| May 3, 2010 at 17:15 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | @esm: Is that GMail address the one you have listed on Server Fault? I only ask because I notice that it's not the one you have in your contact info here on meta. | |
| May 3, 2010 at 17:12 | comment | added | esm | The email arrived at my Gmail address (which I don't use for correspondence or list as a typical contact address, although you can find it if you look for it), which increased the "smell" factor of the message for me. I'm also not a huge contributor, which makes it odd that I'd be singled out for contact. | |
| May 3, 2010 at 17:08 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | Do you think this might be a legitimate request? The only way I can see to contact you by e-mail is through a link on your website, or by reversing your e-mail hash (which I haven't done, obviously). Meaning, this cannot possibly be bulk spam, and therefore isn't a system problem. | |
| May 3, 2010 at 16:57 | history | asked | esm | CC BY-SA 2.5 |