Hi,

We blocked plaxo for a while. We had to reopened it. I had no idea, how much 
users are
using this service.

We informed our users (again...) about the risks giving away an email address 
to a public
service. This is we can do as an ISP. The decision to use plaxo must be done by 
the user.



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Am Montag, 6. Dezember 2004 um 00:03 schrieben Sie:

> Actually all I meant is I wouldn't use it or add any contacts, however I've
> not blocked them I don't think. If I start seeing a lot of emails from them
> in my logs I may be tempted to block them. I seriously think they are just a
> front for gathering legit email addresses for spammers, but that's just a
> suspicion or opinion not based on any hardcore evidence other that what a
> client told me happened to him. That particular client is really nice but
> not the sharpest PC owner on the block.

> Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Van Hefner
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Plaxo

> Ted,

> I guess that it depends upon what kind of mail hosting situation you have. I
> am not going to add them to my blacklist, where e-mails would be deleted. I
> will check to see if I can reject these e-mails at the envelope using my
> Postfix box though. Fortunately (I guess), I'm not personally in a situation
> where I have thousands of hosting customers that I need to pander to. I only
> have a handful of clients that I all know personally, and in my situation it
> makes much more sense to block this stuff outright and warn my customers
> against using it.


> William Van Hefner
> Network Administrator
> Vantek Communications, Inc.
> http://www.vantekcommunications.com

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted 
>> Galerneau
>> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:41 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Plaxo
>> 
>> 
>> So I guess this depends on who you ask, personally I am not a gambler.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox
>> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:11 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Plaxo
>> 
>> Agreed.  We get plaxo'd all of the time from people we've had 
>> brief correspondence with.  Quite annoying.
>> 
>> Darin.
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "Internet Relations" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:54 PM
>> Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Plaxo
>> 
>> 
>> On Saturday, December 4, 2004, 8:35:45 PM, Internet wrote:
>> 
>> IR> I use it personally, as do many of my associates.  Its fantastic 
>> IR> functionality and extremely useful.
>> 
>> I hate it.
>> 
>> I've seen tremendous amounts of apparent abuse from plaxo, 
>> and yet legitimate folks - even some that I work with - have 
>> decided to use it and so all of the rules that started out 
>> banning this content have had to be removed to support the 
>> small, and unfortunately growing number of people who actually use it.
>> 
>> I rarely see a week go by that a plaxo message is not 
>> submitted as spam to us. And yet, I cannot block it because 
>> too many people use it - those rules have long since been 
>> removed due to FP complaints.
>> 
>> This is a controversial position to take, but I think it has 
>> to be said - plaxo should go away or significantly alter it's 
>> operations. IMO, the people who are using plaxo are setting 
>> themselves up for big trouble later on.
>> 
>> _M
>> 
>> 
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