On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:19, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 +0000 Peter Lewis <plewis@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
It seems to be that either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their email password (very bad idea).
It's probably the easiest way to invite your (legit) email contacts. The real question is: do dropbox/facebook/linkedin/.. not provide a confirmation page with checkboxes per contact or something, before actually sending the mail?
No, I think that would be completely unworkable from a UI perspective given the size of most peoples' address books. Instead they just spam everyone, assuming that people will have the intelligence to ignore the emails where they don't make sense. ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus