On 10/18/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/17/07, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/17/07, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anukalp, > > > > > > You fail to realize, that your address book has public > > > mailing list email addresses and that people are not > > > interested in reading advertisements there. > > > > The funnier part is that the list moderation rules, simply fail to > > arrest an advertisment, but on the other hand manage to arrest a > > regular post to the list!!! > > > > > /!\ ALERT! Shelfari.com, a site that professes to unite book lovers, asks > for your (gmail) account password so it can "tell you if any of your > contacts are using" the service. I wonder how many would fall for this > trick. Oh, and there is the standard footnote that tells you they won't > store your login information! > > Small sacrifice for getting access to your address book! Probably that > was > how I got the invitation mail in the first place. > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. >
Is there any merit in the idea of setting up a public notification service on the PLUG website informing PLUG-gies and others of such potential privacy violations? Is there a web service that does this already? -- Kaisare, Kapil Sadashiv ----------------------------------- Codito, ergo sum -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
