[LMB] OT: Spammer alert, was Do we like the same books?

B. Ross Ashley redlion at sff.net
Sun Sep 30 04:50:04 BST 2007


On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:56:02 -0400, "Paula Lieberman" <paal at gis.net>
wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Polowin" <jpolowin at hotmail.com>


 > > Shelfari is currently designed to glom your entire address
 > > book(s) and send invitations to every single entry, in your
 > > name, without your easy ability to say yea/nay.  It then
 > > follows up with reminders.
 > >
 > > Spammers.  Avoid them.

 > Fraudulent thugs, more like.  Anyone sucking information out of
 > my computer without my permission is an intellectual property felon.

And here I thought it was just a facebook app ... I have deleted it from 
my Facebook page. It would not have done that sort of data mining on my 
Linux bx, I'm fairly sure.
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