eran sent you a friend request on Yaari...

[Derek Broughton]

keithclark1966 at rogers.com wrote:

> Yeah, ok old guy.  Maybe just be nice for a change.
> 

On that subject, how about not top posting...

> From: Gerald Dachs <ubuntu at dachsweb.de>
> 
> Am Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:38:38 +0000
> schrieb "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On 05/01/2008, Gerald Dachs <ubuntu at dachsweb.de> wrote:
>> > http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/boycott_yaari_com_spam_2
>> >
>> > another reason why nobody should use gmail
>> 
>> The problem here is an unethical social networking site, Yaari, that
>> spams people; it's nothing to do with Gmail. Most social networking
>> sites will now log in to your webmail accounts if you give them
>> permission and feed them your ID and password, so they can harvest
>> member addresses from your webmail addresses. This is harmless
>  enough;
> 
> Sorry, I was not aware that all this sites doing it and that there are
> people that thinks it is normal and harmless.
> I am too naive and maybe too old. For my generation privacy seems to
> be much more important. 

I agree.  I complain when people send email to a TO: list that's all
exposed.  I sure as hell don't want social networking sites borrowing their
address books to harvest my address.  I have dozens of throw-away addresses
for those people - my _real_ address is mine, and not for indiscriminately
sharing.
-- 
derek