Getting Spammed!

I have had this particular web e-mail address for the best part of 10 years and have never used it for commercial purposes before and it has never recieved any Spam e-mails! however, since joining the BT Community forum and using it to sign up whilst in transition from my old ISP, I am now starting to recieve spam even though I have taken the option to keep my e-mail address private.
Is this forum leaking details to some web-crawler or is it selling on personal information? Either way, I'm not happy at losing the privacy of a long held web account that can be accessed from any connection, anywhere in the world and I hold BT fully accountable.
Is anybody else recieving spam on an account other than one of BT's own?

I understand you're trying very hard to defend BT, but if you care to read my posts again, you might notice that I'm fairly well experienced with these things ...as anyone that can keep an e-mail address free of spam for 10 years must be.
One of the ways to keep them free of spam is to keep an eye on spam activity. This address has never been published to any other than Family and one or two Companies that I've worked for - that is to say; until I used it to sign up here. my former static isp didn't have it and my mobile isp hasn't changed. If I sign up here and the spamming begins, it's obvious to anybody with any common sense where the root of said spam is originating.
As a form of a test, I've just now changed my contact e-mail address to one that I've had for a couple of years and never recieved spam on either ..but this time it's never been used to contact anybody! It's totally clean.
Let's wait a couple weeks and see what happens there huh.
P.S: I'll also say again: it's nothing to do with Luck! It's all about who you sign up with.
P.P.S: If anybody else - aside from TonyM - has suffered a similar fate with a non-BT e-mail address please feel free to post your experience.
10 years of lucky ?

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