Well, looks like over the weekend, the CBLDF inadvertently e-mailed (in at least triplicate, at this point) their entire previous donor mailing list.
What's to apologize for? Well...everyone is listed in the TO section. This means everyone's e-mail address has been passed out to a whole host of people, which brings concerns of having your address harvested for spamming. Let's hope it doesn't become one of those annoying situations where everyone replies all...
Update: So far, so good...no reply-to-all e-mails. But the real test is when the work week starts...
Update 2: And here's the apology:
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund apologizes to our supporters for an email that was sent last Friday which did not blind the email addresses of its recipients. This error occurred during a test of new software we were evaluating. The CBLDF deeply regrets the error.
We remain committed to the privacy of our supporters and are working to ensure that such an error does not happen again.
Thank you for your understanding, and your continued support of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Irony: the original mistake wound up in my inbox, but apparently the thrice-sent e-mail with all the addresses visible was enough to trigger CBLDF e-mails getting routed to my spam folder.
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"We remain committed to the privacy of our supporters and are working to ensure that such an error does not happen again. "
ReplyDeleteUm ... this is the kind of error that only needs to happen once to screw people over.