question/vent about e-mail lists

[clh2]

I am absolutely livid.

I recieved an e-mail from a local hospital foundation announcing some fundraising activities prior to Christmas.

I am not uspet about the content of the e-mail. What has me irritated is the fact that they didn't "blind-copy" all the recipients, so now, my e-mail address is on this e-mail with all other ~150 recipients.

I will be sending this person an e-mail back. I am under the assumption that now that my e-mail address is on these other peoples computers that now if these people get some sort of nasty virus, that now I am suseptible to getting that virus, and that now all these people have my e-mail address, which ultimately means I could be getting more junk/spam e-mails, especially if one of these people owns a business, or has their own political message or propaganda they want to send out.

Is what I've said above true? or is there anything else I need to be concerned about?
Thanks for your help!

 

[Keli]

Not exactly, at least I don't believe so. As far as I know the only people that will have your address after they delete the email will be the ones that kept it for some reason and put it into their address book.
If someone that saved it into their address book gets the type of virus that sends itself to everyone in their address book then yes, it could be sent to you but hopefully you are running good enough email anti-virus protection yourself to detect it and delete it for you. But the possiblity is there.
But I'm guessing there's a good chance that no one will even save your address. If I were you I would send a nice note to this organization and remind them of the dangers of sending an email this way and ask them to blind carbon copy you from now on.