Do you think some Broadway website designer is a fan of irony? Evidently the New York Monty Python musical, "Spamalot," has exposed the names, snail mail and email addresses of 31,000 of its keenest fans to the world wide web of spamfinders.
Due to a security hole, all of those who signed up for newsletters from Broadway shows "Spamalot" and "Movin' Out" were listed with their pertinent info on a publically-accessible web page. It would have taken some digging to find it, but we all know that what spammers' spiders do best is dig.
One subscriber whose info was exposed evidently had a Monty Python-esque sense of humor: "Are you sure they didn't do it on purpose?" said Matthew J. H. Baya of Ellsworth, Me. "Talk about guerrilla marketing."
1. The Spamalot show ticket sales are going way up and selling out, actually all Broadway shows are selling, guess it is the holiday season, I hear Spamalot has some crazy production stunts, but I do not see the shows tickets selling. but the gross sales in the paper say I am wrong.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Reed