Does this strike anybody else as wrong?

I'd give 'em the addresses of all the people I don't like and especially the ones that bomb with their funny jokes or pictures or stories that really aren't funny. People I like? Uh, no. If they want to go track them down, nothing you can do about that.

 

Unless I'm out of touch, and I don't think I am, this is not a little shady. It's completely, utterly wrong, and no editorial person should do it, and if it means getting fired, then give them the list and start looking. This is really bad.

 

This is awful. I would make it known I think it's awful.
Then, each email address just might show up one character off.

 

When you send those contacts, also send them to someone who'll flood their inboxes with goatse and tubgirl the day after your paper starts bugging them. Then watch the hilarity ensue.

 

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I think if there's a good local weekly, they'd be really interested in hearing about this on the down-low.

 

Or a local TV station. This is sweeps month, after all.

 

And make it nice and pornographic.

 

Get a Yahoo account and transfer all your contacts there. Then delete your Outlook address book. ;D

I had the Internet long before my paper did, so I used a spare small computer I had and hooked it up to an open phone line at work (I never used it more than 20-30 minutes at a time and it was a local number). Since I didn't have a company e-mail address, I used a Yahoo address I created. When our paper finallly did give us our own company accounts, I decided to keep using the Yahoo account because I had over 150 addresses and I didn't want to deal with the hassle of moving them all over. If my company did something like this, they'd have about a dozen addresses, tops, and none of them are my important contacts.

They can't force you to turn over Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail lists if they're your own personal account, right?

 

Move all your contacts to your personal e-mail or a private e-mail you create for work and delete all your contacts from the work e-mail. Tell your employer you won't comply. Let them try to mine your e-mail for contacts.

When all else fails, upper deck 'em.

 

I'd start collecting the e-mails of everyone who sent a nasty letter to me, then turn those ones over. And even better, when someone calls to complain or ask for a score they could look up themselves or ask you to settle a bar bet, get their e-mails. Save your useful contacts from the hassle.

 

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