E-mail Confidentiality

----- Original Message ----- 
From: 281 Customer
To: Al Sauerman - 281 Support 
Subject: Subject: confidentiality


Dear Al or Tim,
 
Am curious how the e-church got my E-mail.  I understood that 
our E-mail addresses were confidential and that is why we have 
the andris address for junk mail.  We do not give it out to anyone.
Any suggestions how this can happen?
 
Appreciate any help you can give.  
Just don't like people getting our address.
 
281 Customer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Sauerman 
To: 281 Customer
Subject: Re: Subject: confidentiality

Dear Customer,
 
The only way your address could get to anyone is by your e-mail.  
If someone forwarded one of your e-mails to someone else, then 
your address is passed on.  
This can happen, especially with jokes, and everyone on the 
address list gets your address.

We do not give out your address.  If someone were to ask for your
address we would e-mail their request to you to respond to.
 
Al Sauerman, MCP, A+
281 Communications
(830) 798-9041

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Moczygemba 
To: 281 Customer
Subject: Re: Subject: confidentiality

Dear Customer,

If you are sending E-mail to lists of people, some of which you 
may not know, setup a 2nd E-mail address with 281 for 
this purpose.  We give up to 5 E-mail addresses per account!
 
I have several E-mail addresses that I use for different purposes.
 
Another way for your E-mail address to be given out is by 
subscribing to news letters.  Again, I would create another 281 
address to do these type of things.  Many companies on the 
Internet ask for your E-mail address when you request 
information from them.  
It is not uncommon for them to sell your address.

Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about your address after
someone obtains it.  I can only delete it and create a new one,
but you would then have to alert all legitimate senders of your
new address.  If you use Outlook Express, you can setup inbox 
assistant to automatically place messages from the offending 
E-mail address into your deleted items folder instead of your inbox.  

Please call our support staff if you need assistance 
setting up this feature.
 
Sincerely,
 
Tim Moczygemba, VP, MCP
281 Communications Inc.