On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 08:17 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > mouss wrote: > > > the sample posted by Michelle came to her via a debian list. debian > > lists are open (no subscription required) and thus attract a lot of > > spam. > > And whilst invitations such as those broadcasted are annoying, they're > not _really_ spam, are they? > As others have said, it depends who sent it and why. Invitations sent specifically by people who know you aren't spam, but I've heard it said several times that Facebook auto-generates invitations from contact lists uploaded by new members and in my book that's definitely spam. If Facebook does it, I bet other disreputable social networks do too.
Is there any way to distinguish between the two types of invitation? Martin
