Does Southwestern Bell Internet Services sell my e-mail address?
In the interest of ensuring your privacy, Southwestern Bell Internet Services does not, in any way, publicize your e-mail address or any other subscriber information — all such data is kept strictly confidential. This is not only our own internal policy, but a requirement of federal law as well. I got spam that’s targeting an alphabetical list of swbell.net customers. I don’t publicize my swbell.net address and yet I still get spam. There is a variety of software that permits a bulk mailer to send messages to a large number of recipients on a particular Internet provider (such as Southwestern Bell Internet Services), even if they do not know their specific addresses. The software attempts to send a message to every address on that domain (starting with aaa, aab, aac, etc.), not caring about the number of “undeliverable” messages that will be generated from all the incorrect guesses. We believe some spammers may then track which addresses came back as undeliverable, and remove those ad
