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Old Apr 12, 2014 | 5:22 am
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daniel46211
formerly danblar
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: SFO
Posts: 249
Sometimes, when you post your email in a public forum or webpage web-crawlers collect it and adds it a mailing list. Typically, it is sold to a company or used by a company to send malicious emails, so when you are divulging your email over the web you could disguise it a little (for e.g. firstname (no space) lastname AT huge (no space) emailproviderDOTcom.

There is nothing you can do now except unsubscribe from them as they come in.
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