Thank you Aweber for exposing all my email addresses to SPAMMERS. Thank you so much!

I have one email box that I subscribe to all IM lists with - most of the Aweber, and my spam count is at 0. I'll keep an eye on it over the next few days.

You've never seen a company announce that they've had a security breach?
It's called honesty. Banks do it, Microsoft's done it, so have hundreds of other companies. So yes, if something major has happened then I would expect Aweber to contact their customers to explain.

Could you be more specific about the "bugs" you are talking about, or have experienced Rob. I'm not looking forward to any surprises when we launch January 4th.

I wasn't doubting anyone, just saying it doesn't seem to be happening to all Aweber users. Actually, I have some other serious issues with them, which is why I'm looking at other autoresponder services.

Speaking of...thanks for your input on Get Response, and your comment as well, Rob. I don't want to hijack this thread, so if anyone else has any autoresponder recommendations maybe it would be best to PM me.

Yes, it can!
I know this with absolute 100% certainty.

Always when I opt in to some list I (automatically) generate a unique email address in the format:
6iq8hmzjc9@domain.com

So, the alias of that email is a *completely random* 10 character string consisting of characters and numbers randomly mixed together.
In other words, there is NO WAY spammers could ever generate those emails by trying different character combinations for that domain.
That's because the number of possible combination is so huge that it would take the spammers many HUNDREDS OF YEARS to send emails to all possible combinations of emails on just that one domain that I'm using.
So, it's absolutely impossible anyone could ever "guess" my email addresses.
And for every opt-in I use a brand new unique email address.

That's how I can tell where I have used which email address.
I can trace each and every of those automatically generated email addresses to the website where I've originally entered it into an opt-in form.

And if I suddenly get a flood of spam emails *exclusively* to those of these unique email addresses that were normally used by the Aweber system and by their system only
(i.e. marketers who were using Aweber to send follow-up or newsletter emails)
then there ONLY ONE possible explanation for this:
Aweber's data base has been hacked!

You can't tell me that some hacker was just using brute force to get passwords of some Aweber accounts.
That might happen to *some* accounts, yes.
But that CANNOT happen to ALL accounts.
I am on MANY lists and ALL of the corresponding email addresses got compromised.
There is *no way* ALL of the smart marketers would use weak passwords for their Aweber accounts.
And besides:
We already have one user in the other thread (Shaun OReilly) who is using an automatically generated random 12-character password for his Aweber account.
There is absolutely no way to hack such password by using a brute force attack.
That would take many THOUSANDS of years.

Conclusion:
There is only ONE way how this could happen.
The ONLY way this could happen is if someone would get the emails directly from Aweber's data base.
That's it.
Anything else is *technically impossible*.

As you can read above I'm not a customer of Aweber.
So, no need to check some of "my email servers" regarding this issue.

And regarding my personal PC:
Yes, this is completely ruled out in my specific case.

Those unique anti-spam email addresses are neither on my PC nor on some of my servers.
Those email addresses are automatically generated by a third-party system in a second when I'm filling out a form.
Those anti-spam email addresses are forwarding emails only.
Whenever I fill out a form a unique forwarding email address is generated.
Not just for Aweber forms. For all kinds of forms.
And as I wrote above ONLY those anti-spam emails are affected that I used for Aweber forms.
This completely rules out any kind of "virus" or failure on my PC or some of my servers or the said third-party servers.
Because in this case ALL of my anti-spam emails would be affected and not just those that I used for Aweber forms.

@markgilbert
You are talking about ONE "nonsecure website."
Yes, what you are saying is entirely possible for *ONE* nonsecure website.
It is also possible for 2 or 3 of them.

BUT it is absolutely impossible FOR ALL OF THEM!
This is technically impossible.

And yes, I can prove what I've described above with absolute 100% certainty (not some 99%). It's because of the special anti-spam system that I'm using.
*In this particular case* it allows me to prove with 100% certainty that the spammers must have gotten the emails directly from Aweber's data base.

And regarding the lawsuit:
I'm not a customer of Aweber. I just opted in to some lists of marketers who are using Aweber.
If I were Aweber's customer then for sure I'd want to sue them.

Hey ExRat, your arguments may work well if just this sxipper user was being spammed, but do you think that the rest of us who are reporting the same "spamming of multiple-email address previously known about by aweber" issues are all using that service? And also, you would expect that all the names generated by sxipper would be spammed, not just the ones subsequently processed by aweber? Similarly you seem to suggest that the aweber user might have been hacked - so just them, and all simultaneously? That's using an even more unlikely but unprovable argument to disprove one that although unprovable now seems to have such a weight of evidence to be unavoidable?

Wow...this is not good. I've had the same thing happening over the past 24 hours or so. Anyone know if this has happened to other providers, besides Aweber? Could anyone suggest a viable alternative?

Thanks for any input.