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	<title>Comments on: Address harvesting through social networks</title>
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	<description>Email, Delivery, Spam and more</description>
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		<title>By: Anon E Mouse</title>
		<link>http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/04/address-harvesting-through-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-8904</link>
		<dc:creator>Anon E Mouse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Er, so why are there links at the bottom of the article to various social networking sites which engage in similar dubious practices?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Er, so why are there links at the bottom of the article to various social networking sites which engage in similar dubious practices?</p>
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		<title>By: Reunion.com sued under CA anti-spam law at Word to the Wise</title>
		<link>http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/04/address-harvesting-through-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-835</link>
		<dc:creator>Reunion.com sued under CA anti-spam law at Word to the Wise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Part of the case is related to Reunion.com&#8217;s scraping of address books, something I have discussed here [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Part of the case is related to Reunion.com&#8217;s scraping of address books, something I have discussed here [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Brielle's Droning</title>
		<link>http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/04/address-harvesting-through-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-834</link>
		<dc:creator>Brielle's Droning</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Reunion.com added to the AHBL...&lt;/strong&gt;

After a request by one of our users, I&#039;ve added Reunion.com to the Abusive Hosts Blocking List for spamming people&#039;s contacts through social networking sites like Facebook.  Laura did a pretty good post on her blog about the issue....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Reunion.com added to the AHBL&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>After a request by one of our users, I&#8217;ve added Reunion.com to the Abusive Hosts Blocking List for spamming people&#8217;s contacts through social networking sites like Facebook.  Laura did a pretty good post on her blog about the issue&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan Doherty</title>
		<link>http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/04/address-harvesting-through-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-833</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan Doherty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>my issue is
a) consent of their subscriber to give them their address book isn&#039;t enough. {even when given}
my consent wasn&#039;t asked for or given.
{if this was one company giving your details to another it would be a cut n dry data protection case)

b) these sites should be added to the same lists as malware and phishing sites as in essence they are &#039;grooming&#039; users for later abuse by phising sites by encouraging them to &#039;share&#039; their authentication

c) sites like yahoo gmail hotmail and aol should for the protection of their users be activly blocking logins from their ip-space and/or tracking what id&#039;s attempt to so they can e-mail reprimand them for abusing their TOS by giving out their passwords

d) many sites now abuse this lax user generation to actually harvest login details to jabber/messenger/yahoo-im spam their contacts from their trusted contact&#039;s id while the trusted contact is offline.
{also the traditional spamming them via the contacts webmail}

e) the trusted sites that do abide by their privacy policies and never send the invites {while searching their internal userlists only} are the guilty ones as they are the ones blurring the lines and making people willing to give tothers MY EMAIL, without MY permission as they know that I will never find out.

people need to respect their friends property and privacy
the same way as they do when a mutual friend asks for anothers phone number, most of us have the respect to ask before handing it on to a mutual contact, so why now are we allowing a generation to learn that its kosher to give their friends e-mail&#039;s to random third parties</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my issue is<br />
a) consent of their subscriber to give them their address book isn&#8217;t enough. {even when given}<br />
my consent wasn&#8217;t asked for or given.<br />
{if this was one company giving your details to another it would be a cut n dry data protection case)</p>
<p>b) these sites should be added to the same lists as malware and phishing sites as in essence they are &#8216;grooming&#8217; users for later abuse by phising sites by encouraging them to &#8216;share&#8217; their authentication</p>
<p>c) sites like yahoo gmail hotmail and aol should for the protection of their users be activly blocking logins from their ip-space and/or tracking what id&#8217;s attempt to so they can e-mail reprimand them for abusing their TOS by giving out their passwords</p>
<p>d) many sites now abuse this lax user generation to actually harvest login details to jabber/messenger/yahoo-im spam their contacts from their trusted contact&#8217;s id while the trusted contact is offline.<br />
{also the traditional spamming them via the contacts webmail}</p>
<p>e) the trusted sites that do abide by their privacy policies and never send the invites {while searching their internal userlists only} are the guilty ones as they are the ones blurring the lines and making people willing to give tothers MY EMAIL, without MY permission as they know that I will never find out.</p>
<p>people need to respect their friends property and privacy<br />
the same way as they do when a mutual friend asks for anothers phone number, most of us have the respect to ask before handing it on to a mutual contact, so why now are we allowing a generation to learn that its kosher to give their friends e-mail&#8217;s to random third parties</p>
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