On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 22:19 +0100, mouss wrote: > Le 13/12/2010 10:38, Martin Gregorie a écrit : > > > 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. > > no, that's not spam. that's stupid friends behaviour. > If you're certain that's the case I agree that its not really spam.
> if you define spam in a too large way, you will lose some of us. feel > free to go the vigilante way. > I don't remotely intend to go vigilante: I don't know how you got that from what I said, which I thought boiled down to: a) If an acquaintance asks you become a member that is not a problem. b) If a social site uses member address lists to send invitations to join without consulting the list owner then that is disreputable behaviour and the resulting invitations are UCE at best. c) If there's a way to distinguish (a) and (b) then it would be possible to treat (b) as UCE. I'm not doing anything about these invitations at present apart from hitting Delete, but if there was a distinguishing rule and I saw these invitations significantly more often than once or twice a year then I might well want to treat them like any other form of UCE. I'm not an ISP and don't run mailing lists, so I'm in the fortunate position of being able to deep-six UCE. If I want to buy something I'll research it with a search engine, by talking to friends, etc. but I DO NOT want to be bombarded with UCE just because I happen to have bought a similar item in the past. FWIW I'm far more annoyed by UCE agencies who either don't have an 'un-subscribe' capability or, much worse, who include the line "You're receiving this because you subscribed.... .... you can un-subscribe by visiting <<URL>>" and whose URL goes through the motions but doesn't actually unsubscribe you. Martin
