Martin Gregorie wrote: > 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.
In fact, acquaintance or otherwise, that is the whole idea :-) > 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. +1. Although I doubt that any reputable social networking site will do that for very long. > 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. +1. /Per Jessen, Zürich
