On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:32:16AM +0000, Mauro Santos wrote: > I guess they do (or they should, never tried it myself) and I also > believe that they ask for the email's password before they can spam mail > everyone. > To add insult to injury some sites require (or used to require) an email > address and the respective password so "you can keep in touch with your > friends" before allowing one to complete the registration process, or > keep nagging you afterwards telling you that "you are not keeping in > touch with your friends, please give us your email's password and let us > mass spam everyone (tm)". I've never run into a situation like that but I can tell you for sure that I will never give such sites a password to anything! Furthermore, I would drop such a service faster than a hot potatoe. When I 'invite' people to things like linked-in or dropbox, I do it on an individual basis and would hope that the invites be relevant to the persons involved. Like with Linkedin, I like to add a personal note to each invite or request to be linked so the person receiving the request realizes it is me and not some generic spammer out there.
