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I once went to an Atlassian conf and they resold all our emails to dodgy people. Or perhaps leaked them over the black markets.

Not only I keep receiving almost the same email suggesting to buy 5,000 email addresses of Atlassian customers with always the same fields, but it’s always from different domains.

I didn’t think of submitting an Atlassian ticket for each spam I receive. That would teach them.

NEVER give your true email to Atlassian.



Same with Blackhat. You can provide a different e-mail on your profile... and then they'll still happily pass both that and your original sign-up address to any vendor you interacted with, and it will be resold so you end up with spam from vendors that weren't even there.


I think that happens with most conferences these days.

Happened to the disposable email address I sent to the International Manufacturing Technology Show, the A3 Automate show, and the Advanced Manufacturing Expo.

I understand giving my business card or email address to a new vendor I meet at the show. That's the point of the thing.

I do not understand why these shows sabotage themselves by selling their reputation to spammy marketers.




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