Got an email this afternoon suggesting a password change.
What bothers me about these things is so many outfits want an email address to reggie with, so they can later contact you (or ban you or confirm you just won a trip to the Bahamas or whatever!). So then when a site is hacked, even if you change your password, you know that email address is out there getting sold again and again, completely outside the more usual (almost wrote "normal", and why not at this point?!) ways that addresses get harvested for spamming purposes, e.g., bots on relay servers etc.
What bothers me about these things is so many outfits want an email address to reggie with, so they can later contact you (or ban you or confirm you just won a trip to the Bahamas or whatever!). So then when a site is hacked, even if you change your password, you know that email address is out there getting sold again and again, completely outside the more usual (almost wrote "normal", and why not at this point?!) ways that addresses get harvested for spamming purposes, e.g., bots on relay servers etc.
