[arch-general] Robson Peixoto invited you to Dropbox

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Mon Jan 24 05:38:58 EST 2011


On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:32:16 +0000
Mauro Santos <registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also
> believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam
> mail everyone.
> To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an
> email address and the respective password so "you can keep in touch
> with your friends" before allowing one to complete the registration
> process, or keep nagging you afterwards telling you that "you are not
> keeping in touch with your friends, please give us your email's
> password and let us mass spam everyone (tm)".

Somebody should write an imap server to pester such services, like,
keep connections open a long time, pass data only very slowly,
provide lots of random localhost email adresses, etc :P

Dieter


More information about the arch-general mailing list