[Hidden-tech] (w13) You may have received a hack email from this account yesterday.

[Al Williams]

James,

Thank you and apologies, that should have been a BCC.

Best,

Al

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Rich Roth <webmaster at hidden-tech.net>
wrote:

> James nailed it,
> sorry folks that I missed the CCxxxN on the email,
>
> right PLEASE do not send CC's to the HT list - normally they would be
> blocked
>
> Rich/webmaster HT (from SF)
>
>
> On 1/11/2017 1:54 PM, James Triplett wrote:
>
>> On (11/01/17 13:18), Al Williams wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Hi Al,
>>
>> We all sympathize with how frustrating it for this to happen.
>> Unfortunately,
>> you have compounded the problems your correspondents face by including
>> every one
>> of their email addresses in a widely-broadcast email.  It is  now likely
>> that each one of these addresses will wind up on a spammer's list
>> somewhere.
>>
>> Please learn how to do "Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)" email; in that way you
>> don't broadcast both the name and email address of every one of your
>> friends & correspondents.
>>
>> I'm sending this to the whole HiddenTech group not to embarass you- but
>> to warn
>> everyone about this unfortunate mistake that is all too easy to make.
>>
>> James
>>
>> (I obfuscated some of the addresses excerpted above to avoid doing it
>> again....)
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