[arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

[Peter Lewis]

<dropbox email invitation>

On Monday 24 January 2011 10:06:18 Ray Rashif wrote:
> Guys..I don't think anyone has to tell you this but such invites are
> _always_ unintended. E-mail services have a bad tendency to
> automatically insert contacts into your friends' list, mailing list or
> not. So please, ignore e-mails like this and keep them reply-free in
> the future, so that they may just annoy people _once_.

Call me a noob, but I don't understand why these emails get sent. I've seen a 
few of them around on email lists. 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).

What gives?

Pete.