<p>I have 2 email accounts. One is for newsletters, ordering, etc. The other is for friends and family only. Classical Singer magazine/website has started sending stuff to the second email address. </p>
<p>Where do they get their email lists? I don’t really mind, but I am curious.</p>
<p>Maybe you mixed up the two addresses and used the second one for ordering something related.</p>
<p>Or perhaps some well-meaning friend submitted your info for you!</p>
<p>Do you happen to be a fan of classical singer on Facebook? If so perhaps they can pull your email address from there…</p>
<p>opera-mom got it. I checked and I am a fan on facebook… althought I don’t remember doing it! And my facebook email is my friends and family one, but I have the facebook emails sent to a separate folder.</p>
<p>They can get your e-mail a variety of ways, some legal, some not so legal. If you ever buy something musically related, like Opera dvd’s, from an online store and used an e-mail address, that can end up getting part of a targeted mailing list that places sell (take a look at their privacy statement to see). </p>
<p>If you order tickets to a musical performace, some organizations sell their mailing lists (again, depends on their privacy statements), and unscrupulous people also can hack into sites and pick up e-mail addresses, and from the site figure out who would be interested, and sell those lists to companies. </p>
<p>Anywhere your e-mail is used on the net as a form of id, it can end up being sent stuff (or worse, end up being used as a ‘spoof adress’ for illegal spammers, who send out e-mails with URL links in them, and send it as if it came from your address. You generally find out when you inbox gets flooded with ‘mail rejected by receiver’, which means it got flagged by a spam monitor.</p>