Youth Malaysia Exposes Bloggers Emails

Being one of the bloggers who participated in the Youth08 Malaysia Dotcom Youth Search, all bloggers recently received a mass email from the organization. The sad predicament Youth Malaysia have themselves in now is they exposed 396 bloggers. I got the figure from HongKiat as I was just too lazy to start counting the number of email addresses residing in the CC line.

Once Hong Kiat pointed it out through the email, the bloggers (or website owners) have started a social group meeting. Come to think of it, bloggers (or website owners) who are using Gmail can be considered very fortunate. Why? It’s because Gmail lists emails as conversations. If you were running the normal Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail or your own personal email, you’ll be expecting a lot of repetitive email replies – one by one. Gosh!

This ordeal has made bloggers (mostly) in questioning the professionalism of the Youth Malaysia organization committee. While my personal worry is regarding the abusive usage of the email addresses in spamvertising or other possible illegal uses. Even while some bloggers were replying in disappointment, spam started circulating to the exposed email addresses. I personally took the initiative to inform all the email addresses:

To ANYONE and EVERYONE, who starts sending me spamvertising (be it you’re related to Youth Malaysia or not), I will click the Report Spam button.

Once that’s done, you can kiss any marketing efforts into my email inbox goodbye.

Don’t turn this into an even uglier situation.

In counting, I’ve already qualified 2-3 website design companies for irrelevant content or spam. Although the situation may look as bad as the Advertlets domain name expiring, it isn’t. In fact, the Youth Malaysia committee could actually turn this whole thing around. However, it seems they aren’t checking their emails as frequently as they should since there hasn’t been an official reply from them.

In that relation, I now question their professionalism. Though it may seem this started out as a bad thing, all the committee needs to do is come in, apologize and use the situation to their advantage. But it seems the youths aren’t prepared to handle this situation at the moment.

Were you one of the 396 bloggers Youth Malaysia exposed?

[tags]Youth Malaysia, Yourh08, Youth Search, Email marketing[/tags]

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