Re: Is this spam? (Re: Check out my photos on Facebook)

[Andrew Kelly <akelly corisweb org>]

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 07:22 -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
> 
> Offhand, I'd say someone got their address book vacuumed up when they
> joined Facebook, and it sent a join-up message to everyone listed.
> I've seen that happen with those 'Invite your friends to join!'
> buttons on social network sites.   They don't ask you to list the
> people you want to invite, they grab every e-mail address you have and
> send out the invitation.  Annoying and sometimes embarrassing. 

Indeed. Exactly this happened to my wife this week, when she installed
ooVoo to be able to do a little webcam chatting with some friends in the
US. Really very embarrassing. 

Although, oddly enough, one of her physicians who got spammed with it as
well wrote her back to thank her for the great tip and announced he'd be
using it to have some closer contact with some of his out of country
patients. 
So I guess you never know....

Andy


> john r 
> 
> redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com wrote on 05/29/2009 07:00:14
> AM:
> 
> > 
> > Re: Is this spam? (Re: Check out my photos on Facebook) 
> > 
> > bhavesh bhanushali 
> > 
> > to: 
> > 
> > Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
> > 
> > 05/29/2009 07:02 AM 
> > 
> > 
> > i wouldn't click on anything , this definitely looks like spam
> > 
> > --Bhavesh.
> 
> > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Peter Mount <info petermount com>
> wrote: 
> > It looks spammy to me. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Peter Mount 
> > Web Development for Business 
> > Mobile: 0411 276602 
> > info petermount com 
> > http://www.petermount.com 
> > 
> > On 29/05/2009, at 7:45 PM, Parveen Khera wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > Check out my photos on Facebook 
> > 
> > Hi redhat-install-list redhat com,
> > 
> > I invited you to join Facebook a while back and wanted to remind you
> > that once you join, we'll be able to connect online, share photos, 
> > organize groups and events, and more.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Parveen
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