It had people's real names on it.    

Why the fuck put real names on a mass email list?  It would contain the damage in the event of an accidental mass email either by mistake or by a virus/malware sending out spam.

If agencies and ladies can't even use email properly or treat our privacy with utmost care,
why the fuck ask for private info such as employment, home town, and what not?

She sent email to 267 people and CCed everyone instead of BCCing them. Some people apparently give their work email addresses to providers now. I had fun going through each and every one of those email addresses - just for shits and grins. I saw some @att.com @verizon.com @comcast.com etc email addresses.

If you ask me, the fault lies with the hobbyists and not the providers. for giving their real email addresses. Create a ake email address people (gmail, yahoo, live etc) and use it exclusively for hobbying.  Everyone is entitled to an occasional slip up.

A local provder do this twice. The first time I emailed her and said WTF She said she was very sorry it was a mistake. 2 months later she did it again. I emailed her and told her to get me out of her address book.

I have received 4 or 5 of those mass emails in the last year or so. It boggles my mind that so many hobbyists are using their real names and sometimes business email addresses to arrange sessions. Just plain stupid.

they take into account the occasional slip up.   They need to recognize that they will one day slip up.

This means not keeping full names on the mass email list.  If every hobbyist was using a fake name, then providers and agencies will adapt and require stronger  verifications.

There are some ladies and agencies who don't keep full names and just use initials, knowing that they may one day mishandle the info. I think this is good practice.

Even one 'slip up' can be quite damaging to some hobbyists.

She might have sent to everyone by mistake, but for me, occasionally I receive emails from providers, or not, whose email accounts are infected and messages are sent without their knowledge to addresses in their address books.

into account. The information they keep on file can be spilled out accidentally whether it be their mistake or a virus/malware.

Once verification is done and the hobbyist is "cool", then his personal info should be erased and his full name shorted down to First name + Last INITIAL.  Or something along these lines...

The one that did it to me admited it. She forgot to use bcc and just sent it to her mailing list

I saw work emails from private companies and gov't organizations on the list

but why not take all the precautions from your side so an accidental slip up, wouldn't kill your marriage or career.

You can''t control the winds, you can control only the sails.

There are viruses that send out mass emails to names in a computer address book - she may have such a virus.  The real names might not be clients but just friends, merchants, people she sent emails to in the past for a variety of reasons.

The fact that ladies don't know that they can send out personalized bulk emails using gmail, yahoo or hotmail is inexcusable IMO. Doing so would eliminate all possibility of revealing clients' email addressees to the world. Messages sent this way can be customized to include the client's first name in the email body and, best of all, only his address appears in the To line. So it looks like you're sending him a personalized message.

How this hasn't become a provider best practice is absurd. Mod please get the below link posted on the Provider Only board.