Yep, I got an apology via email from Marriott. Curiously enough, I have had zero spam on the email address I use for my Marriott correspondence. At least in my case, this hypothesis doesn't seem to apply.

It's probably David Beierl sitting in some Vanagon in Canada or elsewhere up north, spying and spamming the Lists while he's on some vacation of some sort.;-)

BenT

sent from my electronic leash

On Apr 7, 2011, at 12:42 PM, "Jim Arnott" <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:

> I suspect that this is all related to the Epsilon data breach over the weekend. Could be wrong, but I suspect....
> 
> <http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/02/epsilon-data-breach-results-in-a-huge-loss-of-customer-data/>
> 
> Jim Arnott
> List Administrator
> vanagon@gerry
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> -----Original Message----- From: BenT Syncro
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:50 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: [VANAGON] vanagon list spamming......is it everyone or just me?? Re: rdurham_92037
> 
> Probably everyone. There's been a surge of comprised email addresses from this List, the AW and Syncro forums too. I'm on about a 20 lists. Only getting from these three sources and in relatively massive quantity these past few days.
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> 
> BenT
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