On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:19, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:12:06 +0000 > Peter Lewis <plewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It seems to be that >> either someone uploads their entire addressbook to a random website >> (doesn't seem like a clever idea) or else gives the website their >> email password (very bad idea). > > It's probably the easiest way to invite your (legit) email contacts. > The real question is: do dropbox/facebook/linkedin/.. not provide a > confirmation page with checkboxes per contact or something, before > actually sending the mail? No, I think that would be completely unworkable from a UI perspective given the size of most peoples' address books. Instead they just spam everyone, assuming that people will have the intelligence to ignore the emails where they don't make sense. ;-) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
