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Cycling Scotland email address distribution

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  1. Darkerside
    Member

    Ouch...

    I'm assuming at least a few of you received a bunch of Cycling Scotland emails this afternoon? Can't see the full distribution as I'm on the tablet and got bored scrolling, but they've just sent their New Year update to a sizeable mailing list, and put all the email addresses in the 'to' field. So every address is visible to everyone.

    I'm not greatly reassured by the followup email assuring everyone that data protection was a priority. If that was the case, it wouldn't have been possible in the first place.

    Excellent way to make a body lobbying professional organisations on 'our' behalf look rather amateur.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. DaveC
    Member

    Mistakes happen, My email address is certainly in the public domain. I let my spam filter take care of stuff I might not want to see.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    I received the apology email from Big Matt, lovely guy, but I didn't receive any of the others, the spam fritters / filters got em I guess

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Like gembo I received the apology but not the original e-mails. They didn't get filtered as junk, as far as I know.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. DaveC
    Member

    I didn't get the initial emails either. Perhaps they successfully recalled the originals.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Uberuce
    Member

    It's a pretty epic cc field.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. wingpig
    Member

    I got the apology first, then the original, then the futile recall. This is after I asked to be removed from their dist list after the workplace poster-spam episode.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Darkerside
    Member

    I'm clearly grumpier than some of you when it comes to my personal information :p

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. gembo
    Member

    Was my workplace email. They had it from when they helped us become a cycle friendly employer. Is out in the public domain. Would possibly be grumpier if my personal e-mail

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. fimm
    Member

    I don't appear to have had the problem email, but I did get some stuff about being a cycle friendly employer - with nothing in the title field. I nearly binned it unopened, and I did bin it once I realised what it was.

    I'm sure you can get software to help you send out emails to groups - I think the mountaineering club I'm in uses something to do this.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. Tom
    Member

    fimm: "I'm sure you can get software to help you send out emails to groups"

    MailChimp is very good for that.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. fimm
    Member

    I think that's what the club uses. I don't know any more than that about it.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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