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
>
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