Comments on: Social network sends spam http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/04/social-network-sends-spam/ Spam, delivery, email and more Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sarah http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/04/social-network-sends-spam/#comment-12901 Sarah Mon, 05 May 2008 21:47:48 +0000 http://blog.wordtothewise.com/?p=122#comment-12901 I've signed up at a few sites where there is the ability to import from your address book. The good sites just look for matches, the bad ones encourage you to email all and sundry. A great way to get your message out there. Today I received an invite to "Blue Chip" thanks to "Heath Row" from Squidoo - how many must he have sent out? Gmail then made my 700+ emails available for invitations. If you consider that Gmail can store the email address from every directory confirmation, forum registration, auto response you can grow a large address book very quickly. It's not like Outlook where you have to actively request an address be saved. So, when "Steve" says he didn't know the person doing the invitation he's bound to find that somewhere along the line their paths have crossed and that Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail (in particular) have stored his email. I’ve signed up at a few sites where there is the ability to import from your address book.

The good sites just look for matches, the bad ones encourage you to email all and sundry. A great way to get your message out there.

Today I received an invite to “Blue Chip” thanks to “Heath Row” from Squidoo - how many must he have sent out?

Gmail then made my 700+ emails available for invitations. If you consider that Gmail can store the email address from every directory confirmation, forum registration, auto response you can grow a large address book very quickly. It’s not like Outlook where you have to actively request an address be saved.

So, when “Steve” says he didn’t know the person doing the invitation he’s bound to find that somewhere along the line their paths have crossed and that Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail (in particular) have stored his email.

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