Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses 94
netbuzz writes "If you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect the personal information of those you invite. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the 1,200 email addresses to everyone on the list ... and they did it 17 times."
Re:Blunder (Score:2, Informative)
I write email software [listmailpro.com] and there are ways to prevent this. The way I do it is insert rows into a queue table for each mailing, with each row containing the userid and messageid. As messages are queued to the SMTP server they are removed from this queue. The sending process checks in every 20 seconds. If a queue fails for more than 1 minute, it can be safely resumed with no duplicate messages. A further simple step is taken to prevent a "refresh" on the sending/queuing page. It seems to me they just need better software or a more competent advertising department.