my apologies, BillK summed up the situation nicely. I suppose the moral is: watch out for web services that let you link email accounts. Somehow I spammed my whole gmail contact list...
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:02 AM, BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Thomas McCabe wrote: > > I'm not a moderator, but as a fellow list-user I do ask that you > > please refrain from sending such things to SL4 in future. > > > > > > This Bebo invite spam is more Bebo's fault than Ryan's. > > Bebo (like many social networking sites) by default assume that new > users want to send an invite to everyone in their address book. They > operate a block opt-in policy. If you just quickly click through the > buttons you send an invite to everyone in your address book. Then sit > and panic when you realize what you've done. :) Ryan isn't the only > one that has been caught out by this system. > > > BillK > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ryan J. McCall Cognitive Computing Research Group ccrg.cs.memphis.edu University of Memphis ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
