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Nah... the address is safe from the web, but it's possible that mail gets carried around on social mass-mails from other people. That's one explanation. Very rarely freak losses to spamtopia happen like that.
Anyway, the thing about all my addresses is that i just put them into nonexistence and make something brand new - when i finish a big long battle of commerce - the one address that used to be the equivalent of this present one that is safe now, since i did "unsubscribe" from that one, and appear to be free of spam 100%, is now my chief spam entry point. by other weird coincidences it has become a limbo email which for certain reasons does not truly exist within bureaucracy. the email address is totally unaccounted for. awol. it was made one day by the owner of a giant firm, a little plug somewhere deep in the works, a little address for me, and then years later the firm changed hands, i tried to get em to remove the address, they still haven't, they don't know it's there. Bureaucracy is a funny animal. It's a tardis of an email. I consider my new company a tardis. As soon as I have posted my money-counter at the end of what someone nicely called "my journey", I shall change my avatar to a tardis as a sort of trophy, status-symbol, act of materialistic self-enforcement/enhancement.
To indicate total success, so I can fly off to somewhere else in space and time.
I change emails all the time, computers, even browsers - I throw them away if I want to steer clear of them for ages, then I go to my commandline and unzip and untar copies stored away for when i want to reinstall them. i operate on the basis that no computer can be trusted not to crash permanently without warning, no backup system is non-entropic, and no piece of data is worth anything, effectively, because in most aspects of the machine's usage the specific data is entirely arbitrary and not worth backing up, in terms of the longterm.
the machine in which my websites and users run is, of course, is a mega star-destroyer of a server. a shark of a server. it's only my own machines which use the web which get used up until their worn out and blow up. they live the R2D2 life, always resurrected but frequently blown the hell up. most of what i have in the first place is 5th hand oldest junk ****e that already probably died a few times before previous owners gave up on it without letting on that it was terminally ill. also environmental problems destroyed ALL my machines a year ago and this one was saved because i'd put it in storage with a dud hard drive after it died before that. the drive was 50 quid to replace. it's 3 years older than the oldest 'present day' internet access domestic machine, but it runs at 90% the level. my only problem is NO contemporary software, games, anything. i need dosh, then i'll be a modern-day computer and put this abacus away.
but all my emails and other entry points just disappear after a few months or years depending on life's weather, and then the past disappears, and all access from spam or intrusion disappears. plus using macs still saves you from viruses if the mac is so old that it predates the birth of more mainstream mac hacking.
That aspect of my online behaviour is the main reason that any form of inbound email just doesn't work for me, but hey, i'm a renegade, an anarchist, something a bit like a timelord but less charismatic. i'm not really a punter. in business terms your mechanisms are good and i should start investing there soon. Whatever gets the job done. I am convinced that email marketing is my next battle front.
not as a middle man, though. as a subscription farmer.
Last edited by witnesstheday; 01-07-2009 at 02:02 PM..
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